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Democracy and international trade : differential effects from a panel quantile regression framework

Abeliansky, Ana; Krenz, Astrid - 2015

There has been a wide debate on whether democracy actually has an effect on economic outcomes, and especially on … variables estimation. Our results demonstrate that the effect of democracy on trade is underestimated using Ordinary Least … (1996) which suggest that the effects of democracy for economic growth are not uniform for all countries. …

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Democracy and International Trade : Differential Effects from a Panel Quantile Regression Framework

Abeliansky, Ana - 2015

There has been a wide debate on whether democracy actually has an effect on economic outcomes, and especially on … variables estimation.Our results demonstrate that the effect of democracy on trade is underestimated using Ordinary Least … (1996) which suggest that the effects of democracy for economic growth are not uniform for all countries …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023504

Essays on international trade and development

Heid, Benedikt - 2014

migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

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The causal impact of common native language on international trade : evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design

Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - 2015

This paper studies the effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland hosts three major native language groups which adjoin countries sharing the same native majority languages. In regions close to the internal language border the alternate major language is...

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Margins, gravity, and causality : export diversification and income levels reconsidered

Mau, Karsten - 2014

The paper shows that the relationship between GDP per capita and levels of specialization can be predicted differently depending on whether the intensive or the extensive margin is considered. It shows that at the extensive margin countries continuously diversify their exports and that...

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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?

Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019

Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...

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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union

Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...

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Do natural resources depress income per capita?

Arezki, Rabah; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2010

Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in...

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Bananas, oil, and development: examining the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type

Lay, Jann; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2004

This paper examines the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type. We review and synthesize existing theories of the transmission channels of the curse. This synthesis suggests that (1) relating the transmission channels to the characteristics of different types of resources,...

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OLS-Estimation of conditional and unconditional sigma- and beta-convergence of per capita income: Implications of Solow-Swan and Ramsey-Cass models

Maurer, Rainer - 1995

In this paper I discuss the general statistical relationships between beta- and sigmaconvergence (for a definition see section 2) and the implications of the Solow-Swan and Ramsey-Cass model for an OLS-estimation of beta- and sigma-convergence of the log of per capita GDP over a cross section of...

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