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Mitra, Pritha - 2020

Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child … marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the … first to quantify the relationship between child marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the …

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Credit Growth and Economic Recovery in Europe after the Global Financial Crisis

Antoshin, Sergei - 2018

This paper reviews the empirical relationships between credit growth, economic recovery, and bank profitability in Europe after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that the post-GFC recoveries in Europe have been weaker than previous recoveries, with the 'double-dip' recessions in 2011-12...

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Going Viral : A Gravity Model of Infectious Diseases and Tourism Flows

Cevik, Serhan - 2020

This paper develops a gravity model framework to estimate the impact of infectious diseases on bilateral tourism flows among 38,184 pairs of countries over the period 1995-2017. The results confirm that international tourism is adversely affected by disease risk, and the magnitude of this...

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Sharp Instrument : A Stab at Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth

Cherif, Reda - 2018

We shed new light on the determinants of growth by tackling the blunt and weak instrument problems in the empirical growth literature. As an instrument for each endogenous variable, we propose average values of the same variable in neighboring countries. This method has the advantage of...

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Spatial Dependence and Data-Driven Networks of International Banks

Craig, Ben R. - 2016

This paper computes data-driven correlation networks based on the stock returns of international banks and conducts a comprehensive analysis of their topological properties. We first apply spatial-dependence methods to filter the effects of strong common factors and a thresholding procedure to...

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The Impact of Product Market Reforms on Firm Productivity in Italy

Lanau, Sergi - 2016

This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity. Using firm-level data from Italy during 2003-13 and OECD measures of product market regulation, we estimate the effect of deregulation in network sectors on value added and...

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Is There a Debt-Threshold Effect on Output Growth?

Chudik, Alexander - 2015

This paper studies the long-run impact of public debt expansion on economic growth and investigates whether the debt-growth relation varies with the level of indebtedness. Our contribution is both theoretical and empirical. On the theoretical side, we develop tests for threshold effects in the...

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World Saving

Grigoli, Francesco - 2014

This paper presents new evidence on the behavior of saving in the world, by extending previous empirical research in five dimensions. First, it is based on a very large and recent database, covering 165 countries from 1981 to 2012. Second, it conducts a robustness analysis across different...

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Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?

Mohaddes, Kamiar - 2015

This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and GDP growth in India. We collect data on a sample of 14 Indian states over the period 1989-2013, and use the cross-sectionally augmented distributed lag (CSDL)approach of Chudik et...

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Non-Linear Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Emerging Markets

Caselli, Francesca - 2016

This paper estimates exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices in emerging markets focusing on non-linearities and asymmetries. We document non-linearities and asymmetries in the transmission of exchange rate fluctuations to prices using local projection techniques to obtain state dependent...

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