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How Fast are Small Tourist Countries Growing? The 1980-2003 Evidence
Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2007
We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset … covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312601
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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth
Woerz, Julia - 2004
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325463
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A Glimpse on Sectoral Convergence of Productivity Levels
Müller, Gerald - 2001
This paper examines the presence of sectoral convergence of labor productivity between 14 OECD countries. Using the OECD International Sectoral Data Base (ISDB), the paper looks at the developments within 12 distinct sectors during the period 1970-1995. The change of the coefficients of variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316390
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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000
The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...
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What if all countries were actually in the same boat? A comparison of countries' vulnerability based on Markov Switching Models
Vannier, Brendan - 2016
This article aims at assessing the main characteristics of the business cycle of 80 developed and developing countries. By comparing the possibility for these economies to enter or to exit a recession and the associated consequences, it aims at complementing existing literature with regard to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561795
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The KOF Globalisation Index - revisited
Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2018
globalisation for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969269
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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth
Wörz, Julia - 2003
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita income growth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-run growth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099854
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Economic Convergence and Structural Change: the Role of Transition and EU Accession
Dobrinsky, Rumen; Havlik, Peter - 2014
This paper analyses the speed and patterns of economic convergence in the new EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe during transition and the first years of EU membership. After a brief discussion of measurement and data issues, the paper provides stylised facts on growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100131
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On determinants of the economic growth of European countries during 2005-2015
Mazurek, Jiří - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 20 (2017) 2, pp. 21-33
The aim of the paper is to examine the economic growth of 32 European countries from 2005 to 2015. This period was characterized by a strong growth prior to 2009, when the Great Recession started, and lasted until 2012-2013 in the majority of examined countries. The growth between 2005 and 2015...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922449
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Global Competitiveness and Economic Growth: A One-Way or Two-Way Relationship?
Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena - 2015
The Global Competitiveness Index is treated as a standard to measure the competitiveness of countries. Leaders look at it to make policy and resource allocation decisions because global competitiveness is expected to be related to economic growth. However, studies which analyze the empirical...
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