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Growth and exchange rate volatility : a panel data analysis

Vieira, F. V.; Holland, M.; Gomes da Silva, Cleomar; … - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 25/27, pp. 3733-3741

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Transportation costs and the great divergence

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014

This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...

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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries

Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014

Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....

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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014

Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...

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Economic growth evens-out happiness : evidence from six surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...

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The great divergence : a network approach

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2014

country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …

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