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Fiscal Policies and Subnational Economic Growth in Mexico

Srithongrung, Arwiphawee; Sánchez-Juárez, Isaac - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 5 (2015) 1, pp. 11-22

This study investigates the effects of taxes and public investment on economic growth of Mexican states. The subnational government finance data were drawn from 32 states during the period of 1993 to 2011. Correcting for long-term trends and isolating cointegration effects between economic...

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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …

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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...

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A Contribution to the Empirics of Convergence: the Case of the European State Members

Sousa, Cândido T.; Pereira, Elisabeth T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study aims to examine the absolute and conditional convergence across the 27 EU Member States. To examine the absolute β convergence was used Baumol model (1986) estimated by OLS and Panel Data, and to examine the absolute σ convergence the Quah model (1993) by graphical analysis....

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What determines the banking sector performance in globalized financial markets? The case of Turkey

Aysan, Ahmet Faruk; Ceyhan, Şanli Pinar - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 7, pp. 1593-1602

This study attempts to give an insight into the trend in the performance of the Turkish banking sector by conducting a panel data fixed effects regression analysis. The results reveal that efficiency change is negatively related to the number of branches. We find a positive relationship between...

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The relationship between factor shares and economic development

Sturgill, Brad - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 34 (2012) 4, pp. 1044-1062

-reproducible factor shares decrease with the stage of economic development, and reproducible factor shares increase with the stage of … economic development. This evidence suggests that studies relying on the macroeconomic paradigm of constant factor shares …

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Fertility, economic growth, and human development causal determinants of the developed lifestyle

Hafner, Kurt A.; Mayer-Foulkes, David - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PA, pp. 107-120

The paper focuses on the long-term determinants of economic development and demographic transition and identifies the … causal structure governing the triad of high income, high human development and low fertility rates defined as the “developed … techniques. Empirical results show a causal long-run relationship between high income, high human development and low fertility …

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Poverty, voracity, and growth

Strulik, Holger - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 396-403

This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and basic needs matter for consumption. It suggests a new view of the so-called voracity effect according to which windfall gains in productivity induce behavior that leads to lower economic growth....

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Should developing countries undervalue their currencies?

Schröder, Marcel - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 140-151

The Washington Consensus emphasizes the economic costs of real exchange rate distortions. However, a sizable recent empirical literature finds that undervalued real exchange rates help countries to achieve faster economic growth. This paper shows that recent findings are driven by inappropriate...

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Mass education or a minority well educated elite in the process of growth: The case of India

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 303-320

This paper analyzes whether mass education is more growth enhancing in developing countries than having a minority well educated elite. Using Indian Census data as a benchmark and enrollment rates at different levels of education, we compute annual attainment levels for a panel of 16 Indian...

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