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Government size, composition, volatility and economic growth

Afonso, António; Furceri, Davide - 2008

This paper analyses the effects in terms of size and volatility of government revenue and spending on growth in OECD and EU countries. The results of the paper suggest that both variables are detrimental to growth. In particular, looking more closely at the effect of each component of government...

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The democracy and economic growth nexus : do FDI and government spending matter? : evidence from the Arab world

Bougharriou, Nouha; Benayed, Walid; Gabsi, Foued Badr - 2019

The purpose of the paper is to examine the direct and indirect links between democracy and economic growth. To do so, the authors estimate a dynamic panel simultaneous equations model on a sample of 16 Arab countries during the period 2002–2013. This study focuses on two particular channels...

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The democracy and economic growth nexus : do FDI and government spending matter? : evidence from the Arab world

Bougharriou, Nouha; Benayed, Walid; Gabsi, Foued Badr - 2018

The purpose of the paper is to examine the direct and indirect links between democracy and economic growth. To do so, the authors estimate a dynamic panel simultaneous equations model on a sample of 16 Arab countries during the period 2002-2013. This study focuses on two particular channels...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793219

Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and the UK

Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013

a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …

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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper

Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013

a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …

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Trade openness and economic growth in the GCC countries : a panel data analysis approach

Altaee, Hatem Hatef Abdulkadim; Jafari, Mohamed Khaled Al - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 11 (2018) 3, pp. 57-64

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to re-examine the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), with emphasis on both the role of exports and imports in economic growth in a multivariate framework including gross fixed capital...

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Technical Change, Variable Elasticity of Substitution and Economic Growth

Gamlath, Sharmila - 2015

We incorporate a variable elasticity of substitution production function into an overlapping generations model à la Diamond (1965). We show that a certain parameter in the production function is a source of biased technical change is a crucial determinant of the economy's growth dynamics. For...

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The Effect of Female and Male Schooling on Economic Growth in the Barro-Lee Model

Lorgelly, Paula K.; Owen, P. Dorian - 2000

Barro and Lee (1994), in an influential empirical study of the determinants of economic growth, find that, whereas growth is positively related to male schooling, it is negatively related to female schooling. Stokey (1994) has suggested that this is largely due to the influence of four Asian...

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Modeling economic growth : Domar on moving equilibrium

Boianovsky, Mauro - 2015 - Sixth draft (November 2016)

economy was supposed to be stable, although the model itself was not perfectly consistent with that. The estimation of the …

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The great divergence : a network approach

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …

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