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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Beliefs and Culture

Strieborny, Martin - 2013

Governments perpetually align their policies to satisfy shifts in voters' relative demand for economic growth versus social equality. Following such shifts, increases (decreases) in government interventions lower (raise) both inequality and growth. This pattern is stronger in egalitarian...

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International capital flows, external assets and output volatility

Hoffmann, Mathias; Krause, Michael; Tillmann, Peter - 2014

This paper proposes a new perspective on international capital flows and countries' long-run external asset position. Cross-sectional evidence for 84 developing countries shows that over the last three decades countries that have had on average higher volatility of output growth (1) accumulated...

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International capital flows, external assets and output volatility

Hoffmann, Mathias; Krause, Michael; Tillmann, Peter - 2014

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The Level of Productivity in Traded and Non-Traded Sectors for a Large Panel of Countries

Mano, Rui C. - 2015

This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a … panel of 56 countries spanning 1989–2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per worker … more disaggregated industry source data; and (ii) it allows for meaningful comparisons of the level of productivity across …

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Productivity Growth and the Exchange Rate Regime : The Role of Financial Development

Aghion, Philippe; Bacchetta, Philippe; Rancière, Romain G. - 2006

its medium-term rate of productivity growth. Moreover, the impact depends critically on the country's level of financial …

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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution

Chong, Alberto (contributor); … - 2007

This paper studies the joint effect of economic and political inequalities on redistributive taxation and institutional quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The...

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The nature of conflict

Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015

This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...

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Financial Development and Income Inequality : Differentiating between Income Definitions

Zielschot, Martijn - 2015

This paper tests the relationship between financial development and income inequality differentiating between gross- and net income inequality in a cross-country setting, using a new standardized database of income inequality. Financial development does negatively affect income inequality...

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A global analysis of income distribution and capacity utilization interactions : the structuralist view

Vechsuruck, Tanadej - 2017

The demand and distributive regimes are estimated from 62 countries around the world based on the Structuralist Goodwin …

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Global Distribution and Dynamics of Economic Freedom : Non-Parametric Approach

Keseljevic, Aleksandar; Spruk, Rok - 2013

The paper exploits the distributional dynamics and structural changes in the endogenous distribution of economic freedom across countries over time by utilizing the Rosenblatt-Parzen Kernel density estimator compared to the original distribution based on the methodology proposed by the Heritage...

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