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The Significance of Technical Trading-Rule Profits in the Foreign Exchange Market : A Bootstrap Approach
Levich, Richard M. - 1991
In this paper, we present new evidence on the profitability and statistical significance of technical trading rules in the foreign exchange market. We utilize a new data base, currency futures contracts for the period 1976-1990, and we implement a new testing procedure based on bootstrap...
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The Effect of Financial Development on Convergence : Theory and Evidence
Aghion, Philippe - 2004
will converge to the growth rate of the world technology frontier, and that all other countries will have a strictly lower …
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The Global Productivity Slump : Common and Country-Specific Factors
Eichengreen, Barry - 2015
Productivity growth is slowing around the world. In 2014, according to the Conference Board's Total Economy Data Base …
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Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
Pritchett, Lant - 2014
Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world's economic gravity will …
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Trying to Understand the PPPs in ICP2011 : Why are the Results so Different?
Deaton, Angus - 2014
academics in studies of economic growth, particularly through the Penn World Table, and in some cases, to allocate resources … extrapolation of the previous round, ICP 2005. These discrepancies will eventually have important implications for the Penn World … Table, and for international comparisons of living standards. The world according to ICP 2011 looks markedly more equal than …
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Globalization, Democracy and Development
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2013
This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using simultaneous estimation techniques. To reflect process, we use multi-dimensional, de facto, and continuous measures of democracy and globalization. To reflect context, as defined...
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Convergence and Modernization Revisited
Barro, Robert J. - 2012
particularly the incorporation of China and India into the world market economy. For 29 countries since 1919, the levels and trends …
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Unconditional Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional...
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-up Growth?
Romer, Paul M. - 2010
Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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