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Competitiveness and clusters : implications for a new European growth strategy

Ketels, Christian H. - 2015

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses summarizes key findings from the previous research...

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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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Group-specific redistribution, inequality, and subjective well-being in China

Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022

Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China's urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...

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Resource curse : a comparative study

Azarhoushang, Behzad; Rukavina, Marko - 2014

examine the viability of Resource Curse theory for Iran, Russia and Norway to see whether natural resources are curse or … Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The … successful oil rich country shows that efficient institutions can turn natural resource into blessing; while Iran's and Russia …

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Creating capitalism : politics, reforms, and economic performance ; an econometric analysis of six countries from 1989-1999

Wykoff, Frank C. - 2001

Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … relatively popular, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria, reform is slower, more problematic, and aimed toward a welfare state not US …

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Assessing the role of technology adoption in China's growth performance

Wirz, Nadja (contributor) - 2008

China has experienced a period of tremendous economic growth in recent years. In an attempt to explain this development, several existing growth-accounting studies reveal that impressively high rates of productivity growth have been at the heart of China's performance. This study investigates to...

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A fragmented China

Poncet, Sandra - 2004

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2012

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian,...

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The ups and downs of Turkish growth, 2002-2015 : political dynamics, the European Union and the institutional slide

Acemoglu, Daron; Üçer, Murat - 2015

We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which eat underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but...

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The EU 2020 innovation indicator : a step forward in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes?

Janger, Jürgen; Schubert, Torben; Andries, Petra; … - 2016

In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes and thereby "support policy-makers in establishing new or reinforced actions to remove bottlenecks that prevent innovators from translating ideas into products and services that...

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