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Time-Frequency Relationship between U.S. Output with Commodity and Asset Prices

Tiwari, Aviral K.; Albulescu, Claudiu T.; Gupta, Rangan - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2015

Commodity and asset prices have a well-documented effect on economic growth, manifested through various channels. At the same time, the business cycle influences the commodity and asset prices. Whereas empirical evidence on the effect of commodity and asset prices on the long-run economic growth...

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Can General Purpose Technology Theory Explain Economic Growth? Electrical Power as a Case Study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - CESifo - 2014

economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA …

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U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence, 1880-1980

McLean, Ian W.; Mitchener, Kris J. - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 1998

The historical analysis of US regional growth is improved by augmenting existing estimates of state personal income per capita, extending previous studies of convergence across states, and more broadly, offering an improved basis for interpreting other issues in regional development such as the...

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Electricity Diffusion and Trend Acceleration in Inter-War Manufacturing Productivity

Ristuccia, C.A.; Solomou, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2002

the manufacturing sector during the inter-war period. A comparative analysis of the USA, Britain, Germany, and Japan shows … electricity diffusion. Germany’s labour productivity growth was nevertheless sustained in 1925 - 1938. The USA saw an earlier …

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Globalisation effect measure via hierarchical dynamic factor modelling

Reklaite, Agne - Instytut Badañ Gospodarczych (IBG) - 2015

In this paper the issue of globalisation and deteriorating precision of domestically oriented frameworks is addressed. A hypothesis that the effect of international trends on the growth of economy is increasing over time is formed. In order to validate this a method of composing foreign series...

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Using sentiment surveys to predict GDP growth and stock returns

Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

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An Alternative Method How to Measure Impact of the Intensive and Extensive Factors on the GDP Change and Its Application on the Us and China GDP Development

Mihola, Jiří; Wawrosz, Petr - In: Politická ekonomie 2014 (2014) 5, pp. 583-604

The article presents an alternative method to growth accounting. It makes it possible to express the effect of change in the quantity of inputs as well as the effect of the productivity of inputs (i.e. technological changes) on the change of GDP for all possible typologies of input/output...

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Does Black’s Hypothesis for Output Variability Hold for Mexico?

Macri, Joseph; Sinha, Dipendra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Using two data series, namely GDP and the index of industrial production, we study the relationship between output variability and the growth rate of output. Ng-Perron unit root test shows that the growth rate of GDP is non-stationary but the growth rate of industrial output is stationary. Thus,...

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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key

Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

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Anomalies in Economic History: Reflections on the 'Antebellum Puzzle'

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

Argues that the decline in physical stature of the American population beginning with 1835 was related to the concomitants of the onset of modern economic growth and not entirely to changes in the disease environment.

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