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Bibliometric analysis of foreign direct investment and economic growth relationship : a research agenda

Cicea, Claudiu; Marinescu, Corina - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 2, pp. 445-466

The relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth is a relationship that has long been studied in the economic literature, of particular importance for the economic and social development of any nation. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the scientific output in...

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Switzerland's rise to a wealthy nation: Competition and contestability as key success factors

Weder, Beatrice; Weder, Rolf - 2009

poor country with no natural resources and net emigration in 1800 to one of the richest countries of the world two hundred …

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Globalization and catching-up in emerging market economies

Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - 2002

history less than 30 nations have become rich and still more than 80 per cent of the world population lives in the middle and … the influence of globalization process on economic growth and how real are the prospects for these emerging markets to … paper examines strategies that can help taking the contemporary wave of globalization to the advantage of fast growth of …

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Distance to the Technological Frontier and Economic Development

Özak, Ömer - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 2012

This research proposes that the geographical distance from the location of the pre-industrial technological frontier has a non-monotonic and persistent effect on development. While remoteness from this frontier diminished imitation, it fostered the emergence of a culture conducive to innovation...

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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization

Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020

We investigate how protectionist policies influence economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We employ the...

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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization

Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2021

We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We...

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Is the Washington consensus dead? : growth, openness, and the great liberation, 1970s - 2000s

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Taylor, Alan M. - 2009

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured;...

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Analysis of Recent Growth in Low-Income CIS Countries

Unigovskaya, Anna - 2006

This paper analyzes factors that determine recent economic growth in the low-income countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.2 The main findings are as follows: (1) productivity gains in export-oriented sectors and expansion of exports may have become the main sources of growth in...

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Exports and long-run growth : the case of Spain, 1850-2017

Bajo Rubio, Oscar - 2020

We analyse in this paper the relationship between international trade and economic growth from the point of view of one of the most traditional hypotheses within this field, namely, the export-led growth hypothesis, for the case of Spain in a long-term perspective of almost 170 years. Exports...

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Is Poland the Next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - 2007

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...

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