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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging

Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...

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Catching-Up and Club Convergence from Cross-National Perspective. A Statistical Study for the Period 1980-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2014

The paper present the analysis outcomes on the catching-up process. Additionally it seeks for identifying the “convergence clubs” in cross-national section. It implements a traditional analysis of convergence tracking the catching-up process as well as the per capita income dynamics across...

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Catching-Up and Club Convergence from Cross-National Perspective. A Statistical Study for the Period 1980-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2014

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Technology Convergence and Digital Divides. A Country-Level Evidence for the Period 2000-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2015

The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....

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Contrasting Revealed Comparative Advantages when Trade is (also) in Intermediate Products

Escaith, Hubert - 2020

The paper reviews and compare a selection of existing and new alternative indicators of Revealed Comparative Advantages, with a special emphasis on trade in intermediate products. The research adopts a statistical approach for both its theoretical and its analytical facets. The formal concepts...

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The Us Dollar, the Euro, and the Yen : An Evaluation of Their Present and Future Status as International Currencies

Beckmann, Rainer - 2010

The paper evaluates the present and future international currency status of the US dollar, the euro and the yen. In section two the functions, benefits, and costs of a leading international currency are discussed. In section three key determinants for the continuous dominance of the US dollar...

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Non-linearities in exchange rate pass-through: Evidence from smooth transition models

Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the presence of nonlinear mechanisms in the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to CPI inflation for … three macroeconomic factors, namely inflation rate, exchange rate fluctuations and business cycle. Our results reveals that … exchange rate transmission is higher when inflation rate surpass some threshold. We give a supportive evidence to the Taylor …

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Cause and cure of the crisis

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The welfare state was created after 1950 with counterproductive mechanisms and this caused high inflation and high …

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Investment images in Southern Europe: an appreciation of firms in four Southern European cities

Metaxas, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The article examines the capacity of four medium-sized cities in Southern Europe, concerning the current situation of their assets (agglomeration economies, urban infrastructures, factors of labor and cost, etc.), the degree of development policies implementation and effectiveness by local...

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Money as gold versus money as water

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The rules of the Eurozone cause the euro to function as the gold standard. The US economy performs better in some … dependent upon current ad hoc measures, with the loss of welfare over the years 2008-2013+. If Eurozone nations create their own … of Greece and Italy. Their participation in the Eurozone was a political decision and thus the Eurozone must bear the …

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