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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse

Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...

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A Restricted-Domain Multilateral Test Approach to the Theory of International Comparisons.

Armstrong, Keir - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1996

This paper develops a novel multilateral test approach to the problem of international comparisons. Many of the associated tests are justified as "reasonable" using the fact that they are direct analogues to properties of the cost-of-living index. Further support is bestowed upon the new...

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Economic Convergence. Applications - Second Part -

Iancu, Aurel - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 4 (2007) 4, pp. 24-48

. Models are used to assess the economic growth, approximate the period of real convergence of Romania to the EU, as well as to … evidence of the economic growth and convergence. …

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Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia

Helliwell, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

The paper reviews the growth performance of different groups of Asian economies, confirms the role of openness as a key … factor explaining the growth differences among the Asian economies, and undertakes a preliminary investigation of the role of … social capital and institutions. The role of openness in explaining growth differences among the Asian economies appears to …

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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative...

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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National symbols, globalization, and the well-being of nations

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

I estimate the effects of national symbols and globalization on the well-being of 88 countries. I find that conventional determinants of production affect national well-being, measured as human development index (HDI). The effects on HDI of national symbols like national flag colors are...

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Unit-Root, Cointegration and Granger Causality Test Results for Export and Growth in OECD Countries

Konya, Laszlo - In: International Journal of Applied Econometrics and … 1 (2004) 2, pp. 67-94

This article is a supplement to Kónya (2004) which investigates the possibility of the export-led growth and growth …

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A Restricted-Domain Multilateral Test Approach to the Theory of International Comparisons(revised and extended version of CEP 96-03)

Armstrong, Keir G. - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1999

This paper develops a novel multilateral test approach to the problem of international comparisons. Many of the associated tests are justi¯ed as\reasonable" using the fact that they are direct analogues to properties of the cost-of-living index. Further support is bestowed upon the new approach...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168891