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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016

-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history …, which has been marked by its colonization experience. Next I discuss the potential growth impact of state fragility, a …

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Economic Analysis and Forecasting in the Global Economy and in Emerging and Developing Regions Including Africa : How Informative Is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna - 2016

-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979100

Apocalypse now? : climate change and war in Africa

Weezel, Stijn van - 2018

There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it...

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The Trade-Off between Foreign Direct Investments and Exports: The Role of Multiple Dimensions of Distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Linders, … - 2009

To serve foreign markets, firms can either export or set up a local subsidiary through horizontal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between countries is large, while exports become more important...

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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade

Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016

How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...

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The trade-off between foreign direct investments and exports : the role of multiple dimensions of distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2009

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Cultural and institutional determinants of bilateral trade flows

Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Slangen, Arjen; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2005

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance...

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Building bridges : bilateral manager connections and international trade

Hoch, Felix; Rudsinske, Jonas - 2021

with less developed institutions indicating that manager connections help overcoming trade barriers created by low …. Namely, the effect differs between connections of male and female managers. Gender discriminating institutions in the …

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On the determinants of trade in natural gas : a political economy approach

Farag, Markos; Zaki, Chahir - 2021

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