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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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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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Religiosity and income : a panel cointegration and causality analysis

Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger - 2013

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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 episodesʺ from 146 countries, 54 % of these episodes are followed by takeoffs. Countries that experience takeoffs average 2.3% annual...

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The history augmented Solow model

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2013 - This Version: March 2013

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

Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 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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Religiosity and Long-Run Productivity Growth

Herzer, Dierk - 2016

In this paper, we show, using a panel of developed countries, that there is a long-run negative association between church attendance and total factor productivity (TFP) with predictive causality running from declining church attendance to increasing factor productivity. According to our...

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The History Augmented Solow Model

Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan - 2013

Unified growth theory predicts that the timing of the fertility transition is a key determinant of contemporary comparative development, as it marks the onset of the take-off to sustained growth. Neoclassical growth theory presupposes a take-off, and explains comparative development by...

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Fiscal space and increasing fiscal resilience

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - 2019

The paper compares fiscal cyclicality across regions and countries from 1960 to 2016. It finds that more than half of 170 countries analyzed in seven regions had, in more recent years, limited fiscal space, and that their fiscal policy was either cyclical or procyclical. This was particularly...

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