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Dualism and Cross-Country Growth Regressions

Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...

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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data

Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - CESifo - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181620

Structural Reforms and the Enlargement of Monetary Union

Hefeker, Carsten - CESifo - 2003

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate countries. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate countries, members of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405838

Terms of Trade, Catch-up, and Home Market Effect: The Example of Japan

Urban, Dieter M. - CESifo - 2007

This paper explores theoretically and empirically the long run relation of the terms of trade (ratio of domestic and foreign prices of traded manufacturing goods) and economic growth of a pair of industrialized countries, one of which experiences a major catch-up process towards the other. It is...

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Market Structure, Technology Spillovers, and Persistence in Productivity Differentials

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - CESifo - 2001

convergence rates. Consistent with theories, the persistence of productivity differentials is found to be positively correlated …, productivity convergence appears to be enhanced by human capital but deterred by government spending. …

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Real Wage Chronologies

Christofides, Louis; Peng, Amy Chen - CESifo - 2007

We process information in a large number of wage contracts, signed over a period of several decades, to generate the long-run history of the real wage for each bargaining pair. We term these hitherto unexamined histories ‘chronologies’. We are able to generate 1574 continuous real wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406353

Structural Reforms and the Enlargement of Monetary Union

Hefeker, Carsten - CESifo - 2000

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196338

Productivity Differences in OECD Countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - CESifo - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …

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Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation

Ding, Sai; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

selection results identify a role for conditional convergence, physical and human capital formation, population growth, degree …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047864

Democracy and Countries with Muslim Majorities: A Reply and Update

Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2012

My empirical results in Potrafke (2012) confirm past conclusions that Muslim-majority countries are less likely to be democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results – and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam and democracy. In his comment on my study,...

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