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Development accounting shows that a significant part of cross-country income differences is attributed to differences in total factor productivity (TFP), but the sources of TFP differences are not well understood. This paper considers the role of international trade to explain cross-country...
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This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
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investment using panel data techniques. Among other results, we confirm the high importance of tangible and intangible ICT … ICT investment, tackling the barriers to ICT adoption and broad-based digitalisation are critical for the EU in order to …
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prolonged crisis. During last years, the less developed countries in EU were the most affected by crisis. Their investment power … provoke new changes in the economic growth mechanism. Among macroeconomic correlations, interest rate - investment - growth … contour plot for the correlation interest rate – investment ratio in GDP - annual GDP growth rate, for all 27 members of EU …
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Growth matters for poverty reduction and the achievement of other MDGs, but the pattern of growth matters more. This paper, based on the MDG experience, identified and analysed a large number of economic policy measures which can make growth more sustained, inclusive and equitable, so as to be...
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All participants in capital markets are asking how to finance investments or to invest money available. The answer to these questions depends on the situation you have: deficit or surplus capital. This article addresses issues concerning the place and role of capital market within the financial...
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Large and sustained differences in marginal products of capital (MPKs) across countries are sharply at odds with the core implications of the neoclassical framework. Lucas (1990) and many subsequent studies have examined reasons for this MPK differential. In a recent contribution, Caselli and...
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Development accounting shows that a significant part of cross-country income differences is attributed to differences in total factor productivity (TFP), but the sources of TFP differences are not well understood. This paper considers the role of international trade to explain cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311201
The inventory/cost ratio is a measure of the time to produce and distribute goods ("time to produce") and, therefore, an important determinant of working capital demand. In the aftermath of emerging market crises, manufacturing industries with higher inventory/cost ratios experienced a larger...
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households, as well as the behavior of companies and their investment activities. The basic conclusions revolve around a more …
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