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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484020
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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015
.e., the determinants of the convergence process. We find evidence for an N-shaped relationship between development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515477
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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space
Lessmann, Christian - 2015
.e., the determinants of the convergence process. We find evidence for an N-shaped relationship between development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023191
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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2017
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969092
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What determines the finance-growth nexus? : an endogenous growth model and empirical evidence
Graff, Michael; Karmann, Alexander - 2003 - Revised version - September 2003
An endogenous growth model with a financial sector is formulated, and empirical analyses are conducted. The model exhibits structural shifts and breaks caused by institutional change, suggesting that a linear approach is inadequate. To address this point empirically, we fit data for 90 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506635
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Regional integration and economic development : an empirical approach
Dion, David-Pascal - 2004
This paper contributes to the empirical literature by providing a quantitative measurement of the influence of regional trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge spillovers in a multi-country model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366570
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A new way to link development to institutions, policies and geography
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - 2008
differential level of development across countries over time. To that end, it attempts to construct a Development Quality Index … disease burden, etc. It demonstrates that relative influence of institutions varies across stages of development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316763
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Institution and development revisited: A nonparametric approach
Basu, Sudip Ranjan; Das, Monica - 2008
development across countries. This technique estimates first order derivatives for every country allowing a deeper look into the … impact of institutions on development. The preliminary cross-country findings show that (i) institutional quality positively … and significantly increases development quality; and (ii) results remain 'robust' for different model specifications and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316802
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Technical Change, Variable Elasticity of Substitution and Economic Growth
Gamlath, Sharmila - 2015
We incorporate a variable elasticity of substitution production function into an overlapping generations model à la Diamond (1965). We show that a certain parameter in the production function is a source of biased technical change is a crucial determinant of the economy's growth dynamics. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026610
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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