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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries
Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - 1998
A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...
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Growth effects of government expenditure and taxation in rich countries
Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - 2000
A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281456
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The contribution of intangible assets to sectoral productivity growth in the EU
Niebel, Thomas; O'Mahony, Mary; Saam, Marianne - 2013
In this paper we report on new data on intangible investment at the level of 1-digit NACE industries of 10 EU countries. The data are constructed as a sectoral breakdown of the INTANInvest database, which contains measures of intangible investment at the level of the aggregate business sector....
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Human capital and macroeconomic growth: Austria and Germany 1960 - 1997. An update
Koman, Reinhard; Marin, Dalia - 1999
In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in per-capita income levels and growth rates is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
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Changes in Total Factor Productivity
Prochniak, Mariusz - In: Poland. Competitiveness Report 2016. The Role of …, (pp. 141-148). 2016
The chapter includes the analysis of total factor productivity (TFP) for 11 CEE countries, referred to as the EU11 (Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) during the 2006–2015 period. To assess changes in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554141
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Sources of economic growth in Zambia, 1970-2013: A growth accounting approach
Mulungu, Kelvin; Ng'ombe, John N. - In: Economies 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-23
Most empirical work on sources of economic growth for different countries lack country-specific empirical evidence to guide policy choices in individual developing countries and previous studies of factor productivity tend to focus on the entire economy or a single sector. This provides fewer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009769
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Human Capital and Macroeconomic Growth: Austria and Germany 1960-1997. An Update
Marin, Dalia; Koman, Reinhard - 2005
In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427417
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Lessons in Econometric Methodology: The Axiom of Correct Specification
Zaman, Asad - In: International Econometric Review (IER) 9 (2017) 2, pp. 50-68
Leamer first pointed out that a regression model is valid only if all of the assumptions under which it is constructed are valid. In particular, this means that all of relevant regressors which are determinants must be included. In practice, applied econometricians assume that whatever model...
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On the Reception of Haavelmo's Econometric Thought
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2012
Trygve Haavelmo's The Probability Approach in Econometrics (1944) has been widely regarded as the foundation document … of modern econometrics. Nevertheless, its significance has been interpreted in widely different ways. Some modern … techniques and a close reading of econometrics articles and textbooks to trace the way in which the economics profession received …
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Migrant inflows, capital outflows, growth and distribution: should we control capital rather than immigration?
Brancaccio, Emiliano; Califano, Andrea; Cristofaro, … - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 18 (2021) 3, pp. 344-363
Liberalization policies of international movements of capital and labour have represented a crucial feature of the so-called 'globalization' era. More recently, however, several restrictions on migratory movements have been adopted to face the alleged negative effects of immigration. On the...
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