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The market place for ideas: An analysis of knowledge diffusion in academic journals

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves; Parikh, Ashok - 2002

The thought that the academy might function like a ‘market place for ideas’ has been influential in the economics of science and is increasingly so in the philosophy of science/economic methodology literature. This paper contributes to this literature by examining one respect in which the...

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Export dynamism and market access

Mayer, Jörg - 2003

Market access liberalization has influenced product-specific growth of world exports and contributed to the shift in … the structure of world exports of manufactures towards electrical and electronic goods (including parts and components … moving to full trade liberalization would lead to an increase in the share of agricultural products in total world trade by …

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What fundamentals drive world migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

the world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and … demographic fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world … evidence drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration …

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Regional output differences in international perspective

Aten, Bettina; Heston, Alan - 2003

estimates provided for the geographical units present opportunities for understanding the world economic structure. …

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On the pitfalls of measuring aid

Renard, Robrecht; Cassimon, Danny - 2001

1960s. Recent World Bank staff research proposes a more radical departure, introducing the concept of EDA, ‘Effective …

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Sharing ownership via employee stock ownership

Sesil, James C.; Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R. - 2001

Increased equity participation by employees has attracted substantial interest for its potential to affect both economic outcomes (e.g., worker and firm performance) and social outcomes (e.g., wealth and income inequality). This paper summarizes the findings from over 50 large-sample empirical...

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Income distribution policies for faster poverty reduction

Addison, Tony; Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2001

Inequality has risen in many countries over the last two decades, especially in the transition economies, but also in many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when inequality is high and rising. Moreover, contrary to...

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Microeconomic policies in the new economy

Stenbacka, Rune - 2001

The core industries of the new information economy are characterized by imperfect competition, asymmetric information or external effects. Thus, well-designed microeconomic policies, in the form of competition policies, technology policies or combinations of these, have strong potential of...

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Inequality and economic growth: The empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data

Knowles, Stephen - 2001

measured in a consistent manner, using data from the World Income Inequality Database. However, evidence is found of a …

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Invention and transfer of climate change mitigation technologies on a global scale: A study drawing on patent data

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; … - 2009

Climate Change ; Mitigation Technologies ; Patent Data

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