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On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688451
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On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691629
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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented Solow model
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387127
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291780
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2008
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292909
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented solow model
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003386580
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Does the shadow economy raise observed aggregate efficiency? A cross-country comparison
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich G.; … - 2006
We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294534
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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Raymond, James; Werker, Eric - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302713
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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF conditionality?
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010
We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302720