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How Does Income Inequality Affect the Growth of U.S. Counties?

Roth, Jeremy - 2010

This paper aims to conduct a precise test of the political economy hypothesis linking income inequality and economic growth. By choosing covariates from a detailed county-level dataset and assuming that U.S. counties experience perfect capital mobility, I shut off the four possible channels...

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Economic growth, institutional quality and financial development in middle-income countries

Heras Recuero, Laura; Pascual González, Roberto - 2019

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between economic growth, institutional quality and financial development whitin a sample of middle-income countries. We generate three hypothesis on the potential relationships between those three dimensions by reviewing the existing literature and...

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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas

Hinrichs, Cord - 2005

kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …

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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth

Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005

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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality

Lamanna, Francesca - 2013

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Social Capital, Trust, and Economic Growth ; A Cross-Sectional and Panel Analysis ; Sozialkapital, Vertrauen und Wirtschaftswachstum ; Eine Querschnitts- und Panelanalyse

Roth, Felix - 2013

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Long-Run Simulations With GTAP: Illustrative Results from APEC Trade Liberalisation

Walmsley, Terrie - 1998

In static applied general equilibrium models, the exogenous/endogenous split between variables (or closure) is used to infer the time frame over which the effects of a shock are simulated. This paper introduces a long-run closure for the GTAP model (Hertel and Tsigas, 1997) and uses this closure...

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14.54 International Trade, Fall 2005

Lorenzoni, Guido - 2005

Introduction to the theory of international trade and finance with applications to current policy issues. From the course home page: Course Description The course will help us understand what determines the flow of goods across countries, i.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of...

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Professor Kiyoshi Kojima's Contributions to FDI Theory: Trade, Structural Transformation, Growth, and Integration in East Asia

Ozawa, Terutomo - 2007

Professor Kojima of Hitotsubashi University is a leading Japanese economist in international economics. Two of his major ideas are reviewed: a theory of pro-trade FDI and an extended "flying-geese" theory of industrial development. Kojima's pro-trade FDI (which rests on the doctrine of...

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An Investigation of Firm-Level R&D Capabilities in East Asia

Jefferson, Gary H.; Kaifeng, Zhong - 2002

This paper uses a survey of 1,826 firms distributed over ten East Asian metropolitan areas – Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, and five Chinese cities – to investigate the sources of firm-level R&D capabilities. The analysis identifies the impact of 23 survey variables, classified by...

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