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Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

larger cities, but also to greater frictions through congestion and other negative effects of agglomeration. Using data on …

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Agglomeration: A Dynamic Approach

Hanlon, Walker; Miscio, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by introducing a simple dynamic spatial … large, though there can be exceptions. Thus, dynamic agglomeration appears to be driven by cross-industry effects. Once we … control for these cross-industry agglomeration effects, we find a strong negative relationship between city size and city …

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Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth? Evidence for the OECD

Andres, Javier; Hernando, Ignacio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

The purpose of this paper is to study the correlation among growth and inflation at the OECD level, within the framework of the so-called convergence equations, and to discuss whether this correlation withstands a number of improvements in the empirical models, which try to address the most...

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Openness, Specialization, and Productivity Growth in Less Developed Countries

Weinhold, Diana; Rauch, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Many empirical studies have found a positive relationship between openness and growth in per capita GDP in less developed countries, and economists have produced many explanations for this correlation. However, the existing studies are consistent with all of these theories and thus do not...

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Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt: Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences

Aizenman, Joshua; Kletzer, Kenneth; Pinto, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...

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Sources of Growth in the Indian Economy

Bosworth, Barry; Collins, Susan M.; Virmani, Arvind - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience -- the concentration of growth in services production, and...

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Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia

Helliwell, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

The paper reviews the growth performance of different groups of Asian economies, confirms the role of openness as a key factor explaining the growth differences among the Asian economies, and undertakes a preliminary investigation of the role of social capital and institutions. The role of...

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Trade Policy and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

This study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major conclusion is that trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works much the same way that it does elsewhere. High levels of trade restrictions have been an important obstacle to exports...

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Evidence on Growth, Increasing Returns and the Extent of the Market

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ades, Alberto F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

We examine two sets of economies, (19th century U.S. states and 20th century less developed countries) where growth rates are positively correlated with initial levels of development to document how these dynamic increasing returns operate. We find that open economies do not display a positive...

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