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Scientific research activity and GDP : an analysis of causality based on 144 countries from around the world
Dębski, Wiesław; Świderski, Bartosz; Kurek, Jarosław - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 3, pp. 315-336
, expressed as the number of significant publications, and gross domestic product (GDP). With causality tests, this relationship … scientific research activity in a given country has a significant effect on GDP; the second verifies how much each specific field … scientific research activity and in GDP. Moreover, this study identifies the most significant fields of this activity that affect …
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Neoclassical convergence versus technological catch-up : a contribution for reaching a consensus
Desdoigts, Alain - 2002
New macro empirical evidence is provided to assess the relative importance of object and idea gaps in explaining the world income distribution dynamics over a benchmark period 1960-1985. Results are then extended through 1995. Formal statistical hypothesis tests allow us to discriminate between...
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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018
We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...
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The introduction of Bismarck's social security system and its effects on marriage and fertility in Prussia
Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2021
Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should...
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Destabilizing the Global Monetary System : Germany's Adoption of the Gold Standard in the Early 1870s
Wiegand, Johannes - 2019
In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been prevalent in most German states until then. The reform sparked a series of steps in other countries that ultimately ended global bimetallism, i.e., a near-universal fixed exchange...
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
predicting unobserved true income). In particular, we find that the PWT 7.1 chain-based GDP series substantially outperforms the … of their price survey. We conclude that GDP series based on unadjusted domestic growth rates alone predict growth rates …
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Aggregate output measurements: a common trend approach
Almuzara, Martín; Fiorentini, Gabriele; Sentana, Enrique - 2021
.S. quarterly data on GDP and GDI, obtaining an improved aggregate output measure. …
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Cultures, clashes and peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009
Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...
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Monotheism (from a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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General Sources of General Purpose Technologies in Complex Societies : Theory of Global Leadership-Driven Innovation, Warfare and Human Development
Coccia, Mario - 2015
A fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is how to explain the sources of path-breaking innovations that support the human development and socioeconomic progress in complex societies. The study here confronts this problem by developing the theoretical framework of global...
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