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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2021
We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We...
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Redistribution as social justice for decarbonising the global economy
Fischer, Andrew Martin - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 25 (2014) 4, pp. 574-586
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Does trade cause long-run development? : theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel
Gerritse, Michiel - 2015 - Preliminary
globalization and 'aid for trade', and this is one of the first papers to provide an economic rationale. I exploit the 1967-1975 war …
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Tourism and development : a recent phenomenon built on old (institutional) roots?
Brau, Rinaldo; Di Liberto, Adriana; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2010
Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...
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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis
Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012
The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
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Does globalization affect regional growth? : evidence for NUTS-2 regions in EU-27
Polasek, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2011 - Preprint
We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between … globalization, integration and technology transfers on European regions. The results suggest that most regions have significantly … benefited from globalization measured by increasing trade openness and FDI. In a non-linear growth convergence model the growth …
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Globalization and growth
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 5, pp. 100-104
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The U.S. economy: leading or just one of the pack?
Mann, Catherine L. - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 40 (2018) 3, pp. 571-578
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"Megacities and countries : urbanization and real convergence"
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014
other side, the globalization of the post-industrial economy generates a new urban spatial organization where a few number … cities are in the less developed countries, while the most powerful world cities are mainly located in the developed … countries. It results that size seems to be neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for obtaining the status of world …
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Escaping the middle-income trap in Southeast Asia : micro evidence on innovation, productivity, and globalization
Lee, Cassey; Narjoko, Dionisius - In: Asian economic policy review : AEPR 10 (2015) 1, pp. 124-147
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