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This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...
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the impact on the DOT of other determinants such as regional integration, changes in the geography of growth or in real …
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competition, exchange rate policy, regional integration, uneven growth, counter-season trade, and "just-in-time inventory …
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The worldwide trend towards privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation has produced substantial economic benefits. Nevertheless, liberalisation has had its shortcomings and there are potential threats to further progress, including in particular an anti-liberalisation backlash. Continuing...
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growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness …, more openness, exports and imports lead to increased economic growth. This implies that a significant proportion of … economic growth in Uganda has been due to short-run increase in the country's openness, more exports and imports. This paper …
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most recent financial crisis, estimating models for export market participation decisions and firm growth and survival. The … the global financial crisis. With respect to firm growth and survival, we find that starters and continuous exporters are …
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The effect of business tax and regulation on growth, together with potential effects of government spending on … education and R&D, is embodied in a model of a small open economy with growth choices. The structural model is estimated on post … regressions of growth. Statistical rejection can occur at either the structural or the growth regression stage. The models …
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Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this … work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data … to determine the extent to which policy choices help or hinder growth. This paper generates estimates of the net …
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in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the … existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of inequality on growth and the extent to which the poorest in society … benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …
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