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Composition of capital is systematically related to income levels: rich countries have higher shares of equipment in their physical capital than poor countries. I examine the quantitative significance of productivity and trade for capital composition. Rich countries have more equipment capital...
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imperfection into a standard neoclassical (open-economy) model of growth, I show that FDI crowds out domestic investment when …
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This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries … countries, we show that FDI has a positive effect on growth only beyond a certain threshold of institutional quality. In order … to benefit from FDI-led growth, institutional reforms should thus precede FDI attraction policies. Additionally, some …
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The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing (South) countries. However, the recent rise of developing economies suggests the need...
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The large literature on the relationship between finance and growth uses the Private Credit/GDP ratio as the proxy for …
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This article examines the effects of project finance on economic growth in the least developed countries (LDC …). Inspired by the neoclassical growth model we set up an econometric model to estimate the effects of project finance for a … suggest, that project finance has a significant positive effect on economic growth and therefore constitute an important …
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We combine the real business cycle small open economy framework with the endogenous growth literature to study the … productivity cost of a sudden stop. In this economy, productivity growth is determined by successful implementation of business …
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Income differences across countries are enormous. In this paper, I quantify a novel channel through which countries gain from equipment trade: composition of capital. Over time, while the rich-poor gap in the aggregate capital-output ratio has been relatively stable, composition of capital has...
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growth, inequality, and financial stability-all critical considerations when policies are designed. A case study for Jamaica …
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innovation based entrepreneurship in particular are maybe the most important drivers of economic growth and that economic success …
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