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The sources of growth at different levels of development

Osborne, Evan - 2003

Cross-country growth regressions have become an increasingly common tool in empirical development research. But these regressions typically do not attempt to distinguish among countries in different stages of development. Two empirical methods are used to test for such differences. Several of...

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Unlucky or bad? Economic policy and economic growth

Osborne, Evan - 2003

Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data to determine the extent to which policy choices help or...

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Media, domocracy, and government action: Prevention vs. palliation in the time of cholera

Choe, Chongwoo; Raschky, Paul A. - 2011

evidence based on major cholera epidemics around the world, which lends some support to these hypotheses. …

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What drives FDI from non-traditional sources? A comparative analysis of the determinants of bilateral FDI flows

Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Busse, … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-1, pp. 1-53

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum...

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Globalisation of production and markets

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Gundlach, Erich; Agarwal, Jamuna Prasad - 1994

Since the 1980s, competitive pressure has increased in the world economy. In addition to traditional trade flows, the …

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What does globalization mean for the world trading system?

Siebert, Horst - 1998

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Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Winter 2013

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Plödt, Martin; … - 2013

[Weltkonjunktur belebt sich spürbar] Die Aussichten für die Weltwirtschaft haben sich zum Jahreswechsel 2013/2014 aufgehellt. Faktoren, die die Weltkonjunktur in den vergangenen beiden Jahren spürbar belasteten, haben an Bedeutung verloren. In den Vereinigten Staaten ist die Konsolidierung im...

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Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes

Rose, Andrew K.; Mihov, Ilian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-13, pp. 1-24

We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet been forced to abandon an inflation target, while many...

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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Vernetzte Sphären' als Herausforderung für eine moderne Ordnungspolitik

Schick, Gerhard; Renner, Andreas - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 80 (2000) 6, pp. 366-370

Die zunehmende Verflechtung von Staat, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft stellt die Ordnungspolitik vor ein Dilemma: Die Kluft zwischen dem eigenen Steuerungsanspruch und der faktischen Steuerungsfähigkeit wird immer größer. Wie ist diese Entwicklung zu bewerten? In welchem Rahmen kann der...

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