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Financial markets and economic growth in Poland : simulations with an econometric model

Wdowiński, Piotr - 2005

In this paper we present simulations of economic performance of the Polish economy based on a quarterly econometric model. The model consists of 22 stochastic equations, which link the financial market with the real economy. The purpose of the research is to present effects of changes to...

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Schumpeterian Innovation, Market Structure and the Stability of Industrial Development

Eliasson, Gunnar - 1986

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What do we know about pro-poor growth and regional poverty in Nigeria?

Ichoku, Hyacinth Eme; Agu, Chukwuma; Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 147-172

This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and … 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the …

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Finance for growth: does a balanced financial structure matter?

Cuadro-Sáez, Lucía; García-Herrero, Alicia - 2007

In this paper we explore empirically a long-standing question in the literature on finance for growth, namely whether the financial structure -in terms of the size of the banking system relative to the capital market- matters for economic growth. We build upon the existing literature by...

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Two to tangle: financial development, political instability and economic growth in Argentina (1896 - 2000)

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G.; Tan, Bin - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...

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Weird ties? Growth, cycles and firm dynamics in an agent-based model with financial-market imperfections

Napoletano, Mauro; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Fagiolo, Giorgio - 2005

This paper studies how the interplay between technological shocks and financial variables shapes the properties of macroeconomic dynamics. Most of the existing literature has based the analysis of aggregate macroeconomic regularities on the representative agent hypothesis (RAH). However, recent...

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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2012

We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...

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Switching costs, firm size, and market structure

Loertscher, Simon; Schneider, Yves - 2005

In many markets, homogenous goods and services are sold both by large global frms and small local frms. Surprisingly, the large frms charge, often substantially, higher prices. Examples include hotels, airlines, and coffee shops. This paper provides a parsimonious model that can account for...

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Spillover Effects and R&D-Cooperations - The Influence of Market Structure

Wölfl, Anita - 2000

This paper examines empirically the role of market structure for the influence of spill-over effects on R&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified competition also the influence of spillovers on...

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Green Lemons - Environmental Labels and Entry into an Environmentally Differentiated Market under Asymmetric Information

Kuhn, Michael - 1999

The paper inquires whether a public eco-label mitigatesadverse selection, where an ecologically superior (green) product variant is underprovided. A model, integrating entry into a perfectly competitive, vertically differentiated industry and rationally expected quality structure (REQS) under...

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