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Are different regions of the United States experiencing convergence in levels of GDP? Carlino and Mills (1993) examined this question through time-series techniques, and found some evidence in favor of regional convergence. This paper checks the robustness of their results by using new...
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Most of the literature that investigates the Great Moderation of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth focuses on OECD developed countries, and few studies discuss emerging economies in Asia. By employing quarterly real GDP growth rates over the period 1960-2009 for China, Hong Kong, Korea,...
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This paper examines the dynamic effects of government outlays on economic growth and the unemployment rate. Using vector autoregression and data from twenty OECD countries over three recent decades, we found: (1) positive shocks to government outlays slow down economic growth and raise the...
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Há pouco consenso quanto à contribuição da abertura comercial para o crescimento da produtividade. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é examinar a relação entre o volume das exportações e a produtividade do trabalho da indústria de transformação do Brasil. Para tanto, foram utilizadas...
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The paper examines the causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth in South Africa while controlling for the effect of banking variable. It applies vector error correction model (VECM), generalized impulse response function (GIRF) and variance decomposition (VDC). In...
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This paper examines regional divergence in income across different states in India, and estimates convergence clubs endogenously. The paper makes two useful contributions. First, the data is analyzed using a novel method due to Phillips and Sul (2007) leading to different conclusions in...
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Long run convergence implies that the convergence hypothesis will be rejected if the income differential is not stationary. However, this definition is valid only if the catching-up process between the two countries is already over. If we take into account catching-up dynamics, then poorest...
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Based on a data set of 115 economies, this paper empirically investigates the relation between public debt and economic growth. We find that those countries that present low public debt are characterized by higher economic growth, while the smallest growth rates are associated with high public...
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This research addresses important empirical questions regarding the relationship between natural gas exports and Egyptian economic growth by extending the Dirtsakis's model (Dritsakis, 2004, p. 1834) with the addition of the labor force into the model and further by addressing the issue in a...
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This paper provides new evidence on a traditional finance–growth nexus through dividing financial services into financial intermediation and non-intermediation services and examining their relationships with economic growth. Applying time-series cointegration techniques and Granger causality...
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