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Mapping the two faces of R&D : productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

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Diehl, Markus; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

We suggest a new way to quantify the growth effects of capital mobility. We find that for reasonable parameter values, capital mobility has a large impact on income growth.

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GDP per Capita among African Countries over the Period 1950â€“2008: Highlights of Convergence Clubs

Rey, Serge; Deisting, Florent - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2779-2800

Using intradistribution dynamics and panel unit root tests, this study considers the economic convergence processes of … 53 African countries during the period 1950â€“2008. The stochastic evidence reveals no global convergence among African … countries but provides indications of convergence clubs. The poorest countries remained relatively poor, stuck in a poverty trap …

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Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade

Cunat, Alejandro; Maffezzoli, Marco - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 7 (2004) 3, pp. 707-736

We construct a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model in which the initial distribution of production factors across economies makes factor price equalization impossible. The model produces dynamics similar to those of the neoclassical growth model. However, free trade prevents identically parameterized...

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Persistent regional gaps and the role of social capital: hints from the Italian Mezzogiorno’s case

Pigliaru, F. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2009

-known path of divergence and convergence – a pattern in common with many other similar cases. The main characteristic of the … Mezzogiorno’s case, however, is that the convergence phase has led the area to a remarkably unfavourable steady-state. Further, I …

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Growth and externalities across economies. An empirical analysis using spatial econometrics

Valcarce, Esther Vaya; Bazo, Enrique Lopez; Serrano, … - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2000

. We assess the role of these external effects in explaining growth and economic convergence. We present a simple growth …

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Prospects for Further (South-) Eastern EU Enlargement: from Divergence to Convergence?

Gligorov, Vladimir; Holzner, Mario; Landesmann, Michael - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2003

This paper looks at the experience of South East Europe which -- for the purposes of this paper -- includes the former states of Yugoslavia except for Slovenia (i.e. Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia), Albania, and the two EU candidate countries, Bulgaria and Romania....

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Unconditional Convergence

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3 …

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Foreign aid, foreign direct investment and economic growth of Lao PDR

Chansomphou, Vatthanamixay; Ichihashi, Masaru - Graduate School for International Development and … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of foreign aid and foreign direct investment on the long-run income per capita and short-run income growth of Lao PDR. We formulate a modification of Solow model; then we employ a cointegration technique to carry out the long-run relationship, and employ an...

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Labour Productivity Convergence in 52 Industries: A Panel Data Analysis of Some European Countries

Mahmood, Tahir - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 2 (2012) 3, pp. 320-339

? -convergence and the speed of convergence of labour productivity for 52 industries are studied with a panel of data … in service sector, the existence of ? - convergence is found for all industries. In manufacturing sector, convergence is … found for all industries except for electronic and computing equipment industries. In general the speed of convergence …

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