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Divergence, convergence, and the history-augmented Solow model

Kufenko, Vadim; Prettner, Klaus; Geloso, Vincent - 2017

We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence …

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Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development : Some International Evidence

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien; Park, … - 2022

This paper examines the association between episodes of large fiscal impulses (expansions and adjustments) and sustainable development indicators (prosperity, resilience, and inclusivity).We provide country studies of Chile, Poland, South Africa, and Thailand, examining the components of...

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The fertility transition around the world - 1950-2005

Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2010

-fertility regime. Visually, the two peaks moved closer together. For the low fertility-group we find both beta- and sigma- convergence … but we cannot establish any convergence pattern for the high fertility regime. Overall our findings are difficult to …

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Knowledge and growth in the very long run

Strulik, Holger - 2010

This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanism between capital accumulation and the ease of knowledge diffusion explains a long epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by a gradual economic...

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Knowledge and growth in the very long run

Strulik, Holger - 2012

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Globalization and taste convergence : the cases of wine and beer

Aizenman, Joshua; Brooks, Eileen L. - 2005

data on 38 countries from 1963-2000, there is clear convergence in the consumption of wine relative to beer between 1963 … and 2000. Convergence occurs even more quickly within groups of countries that have a higher degree of integration. A key … converging, several Latin American countries fail to converge. The patterns of convergence are consistent with dynamics of …

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The fertility transition around the world

Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - In: Journal of population economics 28 (2015) 1, pp. 31-44

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Longevity and technological change

Gehringer, Agnieszka; Prettner, Klaus - Institut für Wirtschaftsmathematik, Technische … - 2014

We analyze the impact of increasing longevity on technological progress within an R&D-based endogenous growth framework and test the model's implications on OECD data from 1960 to 2011. The central hypothesis derived in the theoretical part is that - by raising the incentives of households to...

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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change

Strulik, Holger - 2008

Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...

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Takeoffs

Aizenman, Joshua; Spiegel, Mark - 2007

This paper identifies factors associated with takeoff - a sustained period of high growth following a period of stagnation. We examine a panel of 241 stagnation episodes" from 146 countries, 54 % of these episodes are followed by takeoffs. Countries that experience takeoffs average 2.3% annual...

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