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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited in African Countries
Eggoh, Jude C.; Bangaké, Chrysost; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality tests. The countries are divided into two groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320785
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Mobilizing VAT Revenues in African Countries
Cnossen, Sijbren - CESifo - 2014
Several African countries have to increase their tax revenues to finance human and economic development. General consumption taxes, such as VATs, are the preferred instrument for doing so, because they are less detrimental to growth than income taxes. To enable their use, VAT design has to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093981
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Economic Growth in Africa: Comparing Recent Improvements with the "lost 1980s and early 1990s" and Estimating New Growth Trends
Leibfritz, Willi; Flaig, Gebhard - CESifo - 2013
In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa’s average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641423
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Fiscal Policy During Business Cycles in Developing Countries: The Case of Africa
Leibfritz, Willi; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2013
procyclicality Africa’s resilience against external shocks improved. This also helped to better cope with the Great Recession of 2009. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718528
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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
Brouwer, Jelle; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - CESifo - 2007
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the … and the distribution of outward FDI stocks among these countries. The results reveal a complementarity between trade and …. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5 percent for Poland and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406034
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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI from the US. FDI is higher in countries that are close to the US … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765950
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FDI Technology Spillovers and Wages
Urban, Dieter M. - CESifo - 2007
empirical findings of the MNE wage premium and the empirical FDI technology spillover literature are also discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406367
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Green Havens and Pollution Havens
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2012
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a … major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that in the sectors natural resources extraction and refining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264743
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The Estimation of Multi-dimensional Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Balazsi, Laszlo; Matyas, Laszlo; Wansbeek, Tom J. - CESifo - 2015
The paper introduces the appropriate within estimators for the most frequently used three-dimensional fixed effects panel data models. It analyzes the behavior of these estimators in the cases of no self-flow data, unbalanced data, and dynamic autoregressive models. The main results are then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202965
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Do Stringent Environmental Policies Deter FDI? M&A versus Greenfield
Bialek, Sylwia; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 2015
a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate onprevious studies by controlling for the mode of entry and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011205378