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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547810
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417707
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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
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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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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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213059
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North-South trade agreements and the quality of institutions : panel data evidence
Schneider, Sophie Therese - 2018
institutional quality from developed to developing countries. First, a PTA may affect institutions because it can serve as a network … for political exchange and second, the regulations and commitments stipulated in it may affect local institutions in the … South. I empirically investigate if there are positive effects of being a member in a PTA on the quality of institutions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956930
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On the determinants of trade in natural gas : a political economy approach
Farag, Markos; Zaki, Chahir - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665043