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In this paper we document three credit market imperfections prevalent in middle income countries that can help to explain boom-bust cycles, as well as other macroeconomic patterns observed at higher frequencies across these countries. These imperfections are: the existence of financing...

Many developing market economies were strongly distorted during the 1960s and 1970s by fashionable policies to force industrialisation and they experienced growth collapses when exposed to the price shocks of the 1970s. In this context, the centrally planned economies were even more highly...

Forschung & Entwicklung und Innovationen sind die Grundlage des modernen wirtschaftlichen Wachstums. Über den Außenhandel können Schwellenländer einerseits von Innovationen anderer Länder profitieren, andererseits besitzen sie aber in der Forschungstätigkeit selbst einen komparativen...