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Western Balkan integration and the EU : an agenda for trade and growth

Kathuria, Sanjay (contributor) - 2008

Motivation and macroeconomic context -- Trade trends and patterns and labor competitiveness -- Deepening integration -- Services as an engine of growth : the regional dimension of trade in services -- Attracting private investment

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How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

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Measuring the Impacts of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006

The impacts of inward FDI on host countries are frequently studied using balance-of-payments based measures of flows and stocks. These are unreliable for the purpose because, while theories of the effects of investment are based on FDI production and employment in the host country, these...

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

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Social capital : a multifaceted perspective

Dasgupta, Partha (contributor); … - 1999 - 1. print

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Economics and Reality

Uhlig, Harald - 2010

This paper is a non-technical and somewhat philosophical essay, that seeks to investigate the relationship between economics and reality. More precisely, it asks how reality in the form empirical evidence does or does not influence economic thinking and theory. In particular, which role do...

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Family Trees and Falling Apples : Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men

Buckles, Kasey S.; Price, Joseph; Ward, Zachary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking parents to their adult children. This problem has been especially acute for women, who are more difficult to link...

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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth

Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999

Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic financial structure predated by three decades the canals, railroads, and...

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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War II

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1977

rapidly than in Industry or Agriculture. The rate of growth of output per worker for the total economy was almost one percent …

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Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832--1860 in the US. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle--a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the US. However, this...

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