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Multi-product exporters : diversification and micro-level dynamics

Iacovone, Leonardo - 2008

"Recent developments in trade theory, especially research on multi-product firms, have not been matched by similar progress on the empirical front. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting a novel set of stylized facts on firm-product dynamics observed during an export boom. This exercise...

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Diversification, innovation, and imitation inside the global technological frontier

Lederman, Daniel - 2006

introduction of new export products, (2) export diversification measured by an index of export-revenue concentration, and (3) on …"Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a …

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Political institutions and human development : Does democracy fulfil its 'constructive' and 'instrumental' role?

Vollmer, Sebastian - 2009

performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …

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Democracy and reforms

Amin, Mohammad - 2009

"The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be … economic institutions. The results provide robust support for the claim that democracy is good for growth-enhancing reforms …

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Democracy, credibility, and clientelism

Keefer, Philip - 2005

"Keefer and Vlaicu demonstrate that sharply different policy choices across democracies can be explained as a consequence of differences in the ability of political competitors to make credible pre-electoral commitments to voters. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways....

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Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor

Keefer, Philip - 2003

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The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem

Didier, Tatiana - 2009

"The current account can be understood as the outcome of investment decisions made by domestic and foreign investors. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing...

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Innovation and export portfolios

Klinger, Bailey - 2006

"This paper examines the link between sectoral concentration and overall performance in the search for on … negative relationship between the concentration of innovation portfolios and performance: countries that are the most … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path …

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Country portfolios

Ventura, Jaume (contributor) - 2004

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Housekeeping and plumbing : the investability of emerging markets

Zervos, Sara - 2003

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