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Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance

Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war … reduces annual growth by .01 to .13 percentage points, and high-intensity interstate conflict reduces annual growth by .18 to …

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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2010

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Does conflict disrupt growth? : evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance

Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …-democracies, low income countries, and countries in Africa. -- Economic growth ; war ; conflict …

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Comovement and catch-up in productivity across sectors : evidence from the OECD

Cornwell, Christopher Mark; Wächter, Jens-Uwe - 1999

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined whether departures from the frontier - country-level inefficiencies - exhibit long-run relationships and convergence. The method is applied to 1-digit industries of 14 OECD...

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Accounting for Economic Growth in Taiwan and Mainland China : A Comparative Analysis

Chow, Gregory C.; Lin, An-loh - 2002

Aggregate economic growth is studied using Cobb-Douglas production functions. For Taiwan, new capital stock and human capital data are constructed. We find a constant labor exponent of about 0.7, assuming constant returns; a constant rate of increase in total factor productivity (TFP) of about...

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Productivity convergence and economic growth : a frontier production function approach

Cornwell, Christopher Mark; Wächter, Jens-Uwe - 1999

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We examine whether departures from the frontier are...

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The economic welfare cost of conflict : an empirical assessment

Hess, Gregory D. - 2003

War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture … only the material, economic welfare costs of conflict stemming from the altered path of consumption resulting from conflict …

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Trade openness and economic growth in the GCC countries : a panel data analysis approach

Altaee, Hatem Hatef Abdulkadim; Al-Jafari, Mohamed Khaled - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 11 (2018) 3, pp. 57-64

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to re-examine the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), with emphasis on both the role of exports and imports in economic growth in a multivariate framework including gross fixed capital...

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Trade Openness and Economic Growth in the GCC Countries : A Panel Data Analysis Approach

Altaee, Hatem Hatef Abdulkadhim - 2020

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Chapter 8 Growth Econometrics

Durlauf, Steven N.; Johnson, Paul A.; Temple, Jonathan R.W. - 2005

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous patterns in growth data and...

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