Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 86
Cover Image
Why some countries are slow in acquiring new technologies? A model of trade-led diffusion and absorption
Das, Gouranga Gopal - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 37 (2015) 1, pp. 65-91
Drawing on the stylized facts and evidences, in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, this paper examines the impact on TFP of North–South, North–North trade-related triangular R&D spillovers. By constructing different technology appropriation parameters based on embodied and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011209146
Cover Image
The second transition: Eastern Europe in perspective
Fabrizio, Stefania; Leigh, Daniel; Mody, Ashoka - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2009
This paper studies the global trade and financial market integration of the countries in Eastern Europe. The countries of Eastern Europe achieved two remarkable transitions in the short period of the last two decades: from plan to market and, then, in the run-up to and entry into the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635822
Cover Image
The EU enlargement and economic growth in the CEE new member countries
Rapacki, Ryszard; Próchniak, Mariusz - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2009
This paper analyses whether EU enlargement contributed to economic growth and real convergence in the ten new member countries from Central and Eastern. In this paper, we aim to check whether the EU enlargement contributed to economic growth of ten new member countries from Central and Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459190
Cover Image
Communication costs and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mupela, Evans; Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
This paper investigates the effects of connectivity charges (communication costs) on bilateral exports in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Data from 19 exporter countries was used together with communication costs data in a gravity model of trade setup. The export data derive from the IMF Direction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712081
Cover Image
What Diversification of Trade Matters for Economic Growth of Developing Countries?
Rondeau, Fabien; Roudaut, Nolwen - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2014
This paper underlines the influence of trade diversification on GDP per capita growth. Using methodologies developed by … intensive margin (old traded flows), extensive margin by new partners (geographic diversification) and extensive margin by new … products (product diversification). Estimations of the augmented Solow model by system-GMM for the period 1990-2009, first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969009
Cover Image
Growth and structural reforms: A new assessment
Christiansen, Lone; Schindler, Martin; Tressel, Thierry - In: Journal of International Economics 89 (2013) 2, pp. 347-356
This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Domestic financial reforms and trade reforms are robustly associated with economic growth, but only in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617225
Cover Image
Transitioning Democracies are a Risky Business in the South
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
institutions like democracy and autocracy, the author finds that former is positively related with inequality and later is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876873
Cover Image
Product diversification, relative specialisation and economic development: Import–export analysis
Parteka, Aleksandra; Tamberi, Massimo - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PA, pp. 121-135
This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … particular, by focusing on the diversification of imports, we add a missing piece to already analysed export trends. We use …), they follow a similar path of evolution in the development process. Progressing relative diversification (despecialisation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875206
Cover Image
Trade in services competitiveness: An assessment methodology
Goswami, Arti Grover; Sáez, Sebastián - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 05 (2014) 01, pp. 1440001-1
growth, employment and trade diversification objectives. We summarize a few key indicators for assessing the performance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011011360
Cover Image
Explaining the Diversification Path of Exporters in Brazil: How Similar and Sophisticated are New Products?
Cirera, Xavier; Marin, Anabel; Markwald, Ricardo - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2011
A stylised fact of the economic literature suggests that export diversification is good for economic growth and is … of export diversification: the degree of relatedness (similarity) and sophistication of new products in relation to …’ characteristics at the firm level in Brazil. The main findings suggest that i) diversification occurs in very closely related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320844