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Real convergence and the determinants of growth in EU candidate and potential candidate countries - a panel data approach
Borys, Magdalena Morgese; Polgár, Éva Katalin; Zlate, … - 2008
The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606238
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the ?Natural Trading Partners? Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004
dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262129
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NAFTA and productivity convergence between Mexico and the US
Ito, Tadashi - 2007
This paper studies whether NAFTA contributed to the productivity convergence between Mexico and the US. Using data from the manufacturing sector for 1986 to 2000 and introducing a number of refinements in the computation of the total factor productivity and estimation methods, it shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316754
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North American Free Trade Agreement Nordamerikanische Freihandelsabkommen
Ito, Tadashi - 2007
This paper studies whether NAFTA contributed to the productivity convergence between Mexico and the US. Using data from the manufacturing sector for 1986 to 2000 and introducing a number of refinements in the computation of the total factor productivity and estimation methods, it shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874809
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Economic growth and political integration : estimating the benefits from membership in the European Union using the synthetic counterfactuals method
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2014
This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350820
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Real Convergence and the Determinants of Growth in EU Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries - A Panel Data Approach
Morgese Borys, Magdalena - 2008
The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772990
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Barriers to growth-enhancing structural transformation: the role of subnational differences in intersectoral productivity gaps
Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2021
The movement of workers from the farm sector to a more productive nonfarm sector has failed to generate significant gains in labor productivity in recent decades in many developing countries. This paper offers a new perspective into the barriers to growth-enhancing structural transformation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519218
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the 'Natural Trading Partners' Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2021
dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318929
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Real convergence and the determinants of growth in EU candidate and potential candidate countries : a panel data approach
Borys, Magdalena Morgese; Polgár, Éva Katalin; Zlate, … - 2008
The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641211
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Time Preference, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Integration
Frenkel, Michael; Trauth, Thomas - 2012
Traditional trade theory emphasizes static gains form trade, whereas the growing literature on endogenous growth is … able to explain dynamic gains from trade, i.e., how trade influences economic growth. Empirical studies suggest that … question: do welfare improving effects of trade still prevail when countries are "unequal" in some sense? This paper extends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185640