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Innovation and inequality in a small world
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2017
countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world …. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including … the overtaking of individual countries and the replacement of the technologically leading country in the course of world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665033
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Innovation and inequality in a small world
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2017
countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world …. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including … the overtaking of individual countries and the replacement of the technologically leading country in the course of world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688459
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Income growth, ethnic polarization, and political risk : evidence from international oil price shocks
Brückner, Markus; Grâdšṭayn, Marq - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 43 (2015) 3, pp. 575-594
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The distributional dimension of the resource curse : commodity price shocks and income inequality
Mohtadi, Soran; Castells-Quintana, David - In: Structural change and economic dynamics : SC+ED 59 (2021), pp. 63-78
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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014
Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251655
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397182
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Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lakner, Christoph; Ana Lugo, … - 2014
Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...
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Does wealth inequality matter for growth? : the effect of billionaire wealth, income distribution, and poverty
Bagchi, Sutirtha; Švejnar, Jan - 2013
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211159
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2014
country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253459
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2014
country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255056