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Does financial integration spur economic growth? : New evidence from the first era of financial globalization

Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2006

Does international financial integration boost economic growth? The question has been discussed controversially for a long time. As of yet, robust evidence for a positive impact is lacking (Edison et al., 2002). However, there is substantial narrative evidence from economic history that...

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Post-Materialism: A Cultural Factor Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activ-ity Across Nations

Uhlaner, Lorraine; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004

is included to control for social effects. Data from 28 countries, world-wide, are used to test the hypotheses, based on … intersecting data available from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, World Values Survey and other published sources. Findings …

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Az új vállalkozások gazdaságra gyakorolt hatásainak vizsgálata nemzetközi összehasonlitásban

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László; Varga, Attila; … - 2004

The analysis of the effect of new ventures on the economy has been widely investigated over the last decade. However, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) international research was the first that provided a consistent and comparable estimation of the entrepreneurial activity over nations....

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Understanding the role of entrepreneurship for economic growth

Carree, Martin A.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005

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Post-Materialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations

Uhlaner, Lorraine; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005

effects. Data from 27 countries, world-wide, are used to test the hypotheses, based on intersecting data available from the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, World Values Survey and other published sources. Findings confirm the significance of post …

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Water scarcity and the impact of improved irrigation management: a CGE analysis

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2008

We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The new production structure of the model, which introduces a differentiation between rainfed and irrigated crops, allows a better understanding of the use of water resources in...

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Is economic recovery a myth? Robust estimation of impulse responses

Teulings, Coen N.; Zubanov, Nick - 2010

There is a lively debate on the persistence of the current banking crisis' impact on GDP. Impulse Response Functions (IRF) estimated by Cerra and Saxena (2008) suggest that the effects of earlier crises were long-lasting. We show that standard estimates of IRFs are highly sensitive to...

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Economics : an emerging small world?

Moraga-González, José Luis; van der Leij, Marco J.; … - 2004

This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the … evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the … 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands, with the largest island having about 15% of the population. Two …

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Reputation, price, and death: an empirical analysis of art price formation

Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Wiermann, Christian - 2008

We analyze how an artist's death influences the market prices of her works of art. Death has two opposing effects on art prices. By irrevocably restricting the artist's oeuvre, prices, ceteris paribus, increase when the artist dies. On the other hand, an untimely death may well frustrate the...

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Monetary policy committee size and inflation volatility

Erhart, Szilárd; Lehment, Harmen; Vasquez-Paz, Jose Luis - 2007

Previous research on the optimal size of a monetary policy committee (MPC) focused on theoretical analyses and experimental studies. These studies suggest that the ideal monetary policy committee may not have many more than five members. In this paper we conduct an empirical cross-country study...

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