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; productivity ; Germany …We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence …
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The paper emphasizes the transition in Russia and the role institutions played before and during the process. In Russia, a "big bang" approach was applied. That is to say, transition was conducted all of a sudden, omitting important underlying reforms. This practice should function as a shock...
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The last remaining gap in the national accounts of Russia and the USSR in the twentieth century, 1913 to 1928, includes the Great War, the Civil War, and postwar recovery. Filling this gap, we find that the Russian economy did somewhat better in the Great War than was previously thought; in the...
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We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence …
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countries in the longer run. The more important and effective factors that enhanced industrial productivity in the long run …
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The literature on the growth effects of European integration remains inconclusive. This is due to severe methodological difficulties mostly driven by country heterogeneity. This paper addresses these concerns using the synthetic control method. It constructs counterfactuals for countries that...
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; Economic Recovery ; Current Account ; Productivity ; Labor Market ; Spillovers ; Germany …From its early post-war catch-up phase, Germany's formidable export engine has been its consistent driver of growth …. But Germany has almost equally consistently run current account surpluses. Exports have powered the dynamic phases and …
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accounting exercise to measure the contributions of capital, labor, and productivity to output growth. The average tax rates are …
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