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Foreign Direct Investment and Total Factor Productivity Growth : Does Distance from Technology Frontier Matter

Roy, Subaran - 2012

In this paper we examine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on international variation in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth rates. In particular, we investigate whether a country's initial distance from technology frontier influences the degree to which a country can benefit from...

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From Tradition to Modernity : Economic Growth in a Small World

Lindner, Ines - 2012

This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and …

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?

Delgado, Michael - 2013

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...

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Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, & Income Levels : Some US State-Level Empirics

Wiseman, Travis - 2013

Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following pairs of variables: (1) institutions and entrepreneurial activity; (2) institutions and economic growth; and (3) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of...

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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2016

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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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo - 2009

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo - 2008

We present a theory of the economic and demographic transition where adult longevity, child mortality, fertility and the education composition of the population are jointly determined. The model allows for an investigation of the determinants of underdevelopment traps as well as of the mechanism...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722698

The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2014

country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a “Great Divergence”, that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057264

The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2014

country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence'', that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057390