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How Exports Matter: Trade Patterns over Development Stages
Audretsch, David B; Sanders, Mark; Zhang, Lu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
In this paper we first propose a proxy for the maturity of a country’s export bundle based on product life cycle theory …. Employing a conditional latent class model, we then examine the effect of maturity of countries’ exports on their economic … faster when they specialize in less mature products in an advanced country regime. The effect of maturity turns insignificant …
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International product life cycles, trade and development stages
Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark; Zhang, Lu - In: The journal of technology transfer 46 (2021) 5, pp. 1630-1673
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AGOA Rules: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
Edwards, Lawrence; Lawrence, Robert Z. - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - 2011
Lesotho and other least developed African countries responded impressively to the preferences they were granted under the African Growth and Opportunities Act with a rapid increase in their clothing exports to the US. But this performance has not been accompanied by some of the more dynamic...
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Inside the Arbitrator's Mind
Franck, Susan D. - 2017
Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute resolution. They are to global dispute resolution what judges are to domestic dispute resolution. Despite its global significance, arbitral decision making is a black box. This Article is the first to use original experimental research to explore how...
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Economically Benevolent Dictators : Lessons for Developing Democracies
Gilson, Ronald J. - 2010
The post-war experience of developing countries leads to two depressing conclusions: only a small number of countries have successfully developed; and development theory has not produced development. In this article we examine one critical fact that might provide insights into the development...
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The environmental Kuznets Curve - a survey of the empirical evidence and of possible causes
Lieb, Christoph Martin - 2003
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Human capital and economic growth : how strong is the Nexus?
Škare, Marinko; Lacmanović, Sabina - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 43, pp. 612-633
The link between human capital and economic growth still remains unexplained because of the measurement issues connected to the human capital stock. This study investigates the link between human capital stock and economic growth using inclusive wealth index and ratio of engage d to actively...
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Testing a model of UK growth : a causal role for R&D subsidies
Minford, Lucy; Meenagh, David - 2018
We show that a DSGE model in which subsidies to private sector R&D stimulate economic growth, following the predictions of semi-endogenous growth theory, can account for the joint behaviour of UK output and total factor productivity for 1981-2010. R&D subsidies are measured as government-funded...
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Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...
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Innovation, Product-Cycle Trade, and the Cross-Country Distribution of Income
French, Scott - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation incentives and the world distribution of income. An...
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