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Determinants of European bank risk during financial crisis
Jabra, Wiem Ben; Mighri, Zouheir; Mansouri, Faysal - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-20
This paper examines the determinants of European bank risk-taking during major financial crisis. Using a sample of banks from 26 countries over the period 2005-2015, we examine the nature of the relationship between bank risk, bank characteristics, regulatory, institutional and macroeconomic...
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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age: A cross-country empirical study
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic models to support the hypothesis that the internet, inter alia, enables … evidence to show that the growth landscape has indeed shifted decisively in favor of developing countries in the Internet Age … gains from internet adoption in comparison to the average advanced country. The paper discusses policy implications from the …
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The consequences of U.S. technology changes for productivity in advanced economies
Elstner, Steffen; Rujin, Svetlana - 2019
Since at least the mid-2000's, many advanced economies have experienced low productivity growth. This development is often related to the declining productivity gains at the technology frontier, which is commonly assumed to be determined by the U.S. We challenge this explanation by studying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984958
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The German productivity paradox: Facts and explanations
Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018
Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902086
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The German Productivity Paradox - Facts and Explanations
Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018
Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931981
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Heuristic Optimization Methods for Dynamic Panel Data Model Selection. Application on the Russian Innovative Performance
Savin, Ivan; Winker, Peter - 2010
Innovations, be they radical new products or technology improvements are widely recognized as a key factor of economic growth. To identify the factors triggering innovative activities is a main concern for economic theory and empirical analysis. As the number of hypotheses is large, the process...
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Network Dependency in Migration Flows – A Space-time Analysis for Germany since Re-unification
Mitze, Timo - 2010
-Bond (1998) system GMM estimator in form of the commonly known spatial lag and unconstrained spatial Durbin model, we also apply … system GMM to spatially filtered variables. Finally, combining both approaches to a mixed spatial filteringregression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285462
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The Relationship between Inequality and Growth: Evidence from New Data
Naguib, Costanza - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 153 (2017) 3, pp. 183-225
recent data on income inequality are used for estimation. We employ the Arellano-Bond GMM estimation technique and we find …
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Drivers of Growth in Fast Emerging Economies: A Dynamic Instrumental Quantile Approach
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This study complements the scarce literature on growth determinants in fast emerging economies of the BRICS and MINT by assessing the determinants throughout the conditional distributions of the growth rate and real GDP output for the period 2001-2011. An instrumenal variable (IV) quantile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390901
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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - 2009
Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...
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