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characteristics with rich countries. Good institutions such as strong property rights and rule-of-law are key amongst those … those institutions to developing countries. Worse, good informal institutions seem to be a necessary condition for formal … institutions to “stick”. However, to the extent that good institutions can arise as a “spontaneous order” from individuals …
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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sharing certain characteristics with rich countries or regions. Good institutions such as strong property rights and rule …
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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for a panel of 134 countries to identify the effect of institutions of economic freedom on the level of per capita income …
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A growing body of theoretical and empirical literature analyses the relationship between finance and economic growth. The relationship has been strongly supported by many empirical analyses. However, Global Financial Crisis, 2008 and significantly improved econometric techniques made scholars to...
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We study the effects of a labor-intensive health care sector within an R&D-driven growth model with overlapping generations. Health care increases longevity and labor participation/productivity. We examine under which conditions expanding health care enhances growth and welfare. Even if the...
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The main objective of this work is to investigate the theoretical interrelationships between economic growth, the National Innovation System (NIS) and the real exchange rate (RER) in an export-led growth model. Formally, this work presents new changes in the Kaldor-Dixon-Thirlwalĺs model by the...
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The present paper emphasizes the role of demand, income distribution, endogenous productivity reactions, and other structural changes in the slowdown of the growth rate of output and productivity that has been observed in the United States over the last four decades. In particular, it is...
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