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We investigate the Ramsey-like dynamics of nonrenewable resource abundance on economic growth and welfare in a two … result of Rodríguez and Sachs (1999) that the initial stock of the resource influences negatively the GDP growth of the … effect on the growth rate of the resource-rich country provided the elasticity of the initial price of the resource with …
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on the topological structure and properties of the international trade and financial networks (ITN and IFN). We find that …
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In this paper we compare the patterns of trade and financial integration by exploit- ing network analysis. Our results show that, by combining binary and weighted network analysis, it is possible to deliver more precise and thorough insights on the topological structure and properties of the...
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In all empirical-network studies, the observed properties of economic networks are informative only if compared with a … network) that are unrealistic for most economic networks like the World Trade Web (WTW). In this paper we study the evolution … value of any network statistic across the ensemble of networks that preserve on average some local properties, and are …
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In all empirical-network studies, the observed properties of economic networks are informative only if compared with a … network) that are unrealistic for most economic networks like the World Trade Web (WTW). In this paper we study the evolution … value of any network statistic across the ensemble of networks that preserve on average some local properties, and are …
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the appendix, and can be used as an handson tutorial. Moreover,the World Trade Network local and global centrality …
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We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries …, we show that there do not exist any networks that are stable against the addition and deletion of alliances. We then show … than ten-fold) drop in the rate of interstate wars since 1960 is paralleled by an unprecedented growth in trade over the …
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This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity model to examine the regional changes in trade in agricultural products. This is followed by a discussion of how this might affect the four dimensions of food security,...
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What is the relationship between international trade and business cycle synchronization? Using data from OECD countries, I find that trade in intermediate inputs plays a significant role in synchronizing GDP fluctuations across countries while trade in final goods is found insignificant....
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We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries …, we show that there do not exist any networks that are stable against the addition and deletion of alliances. We then show … than ten-fold) drop in the rate of interstate wars since 1960 is paralleled by an unprecedented growth in trade over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398408