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Market and political power interactions in Greece: An empirical investigation
Kollintzas, Tryphon; Papageorgiou, Dimitris; Tsionas, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-43
In this paper, using a dynamic panel of 21 OECD countries, we find that, unlike the other OECD countries in the sample, wage setting institutions, competition conditions, public finances, and external imbalances can account for the behavior of the public sector wage premium (WPR) and the...
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Trade, institutional quality and income: Empirical evidence for sub-Saharan Africa
In: Economies 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-23
This paper looks at how trade liberalization and institutional quality influence real income. Previous evidence has provided mixed results, and we find that indicators representing trade liberalization have been very weak. By using strongly balanced panel data of 45 Sub-Saharan African countries...
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Performance of Brazilian total factor productivity from 2004 to 2014: A sectoral and regional analysis
de Souza, Thais Andreia Araujo; da Cunha, Marina Silva - In: Journal of Economic Structures 7 (2018) 24, pp. 1-18
This paper aimed to study the behavior of Brazilian productivity between 2004 and 2014 and its impact on growth in a disaggregated analysis. To this end, performance was studied by examining the measurement of total factor productivity and was also based on sectoral and regional aggregation in...
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The democracy and economic growth nexus: Do FDI and government spending matter? Evidence from the Arab world
Bougharriou, Nouha; Benayed, Walid; Gabsi, Foued Badr - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-19, pp. 1-29
The purpose of the paper is to examine the direct and indirect links between democracy and economic growth. To do so …-2013. This study focuses on two particular channels through which democracy affects growth, namely FDI inflows and public … consumption expenditure. The results show that there is no clear relationship between democracy and economic growth in the Arab …
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Growth regimes, dominant social blocs and growth strategies: towards varieties of export-led growth regimes and strategies in Turkey and Poland
Akcay, Ümit; Jungmann, Benjamin - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 20 (2023) 3, pp. 539-560
This paper aims to contribute to the literature on growth regimes by combining an operationalization of growth regimes based on growth contributions and sectoral financial balances with an analysis of dominant social blocs (DSBs). We propose the concept of a growth strategy to bridge the...
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The Applied Theory of the Bourgeois Era: A Price-Theoretic Perspective
Boettke, Peter J.; Candela, Rosolino A. - In: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 140 (2020) 3-4, pp. 355-366
What can we learn about applied price theory from the Bourgeois Era? In this paper, we contend there are three …
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Corruption's Effect on Foreign Direct Investment - The Case of Montenegro
Pupovic, Elvira - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 10 (2012) 2, pp. 13-28
All investments and asset classes have different levels of risks and expected returns. For example, low risk investments such as cash generally provide a lower return than high risk investments over the long term, but are unlikely to lead to a capital loss. High risk investments generally offer...
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Detecting convergence trends among EU universities
Adamakou, Maria; Kallioras, Dimitris; Petrakos, Giōrgos - In: Economies 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-8
methodological approach of convergence clubs. The findings of the paper provide valuable insight into both theory and policy …
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The rise and fall of Argentina
Spruk, Rok - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 1-40
I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina's unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of...
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Baseline analysis of productivity changes with and without considering carbon dioxide emissions in the major manufacturing sector of Indonesia
Armundito, Erik; Kaneko, Shinji - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
This paper provides empirical evidence of changes in the productivities of manufacturing firms in Indonesia over time, in the form of total factor productivity (TFP), from 1990 to 2010 with and without considering carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Employing cleaned and balanced panel datasets for...
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