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Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development : Some International Evidence
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien; Park, … - 2022
This paper examines the association between episodes of large fiscal impulses (expansions and adjustments) and sustainable development indicators (prosperity, resilience, and inclusivity).We provide country studies of Chile, Poland, South Africa, and Thailand, examining the components of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309292
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The fertility transition around the world - 1950-2005
Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2010
-fertility regime. Visually, the two peaks moved closer together. For the low fertility-group we find both beta- and sigma- convergence … but we cannot establish any convergence pattern for the high fertility regime. Overall our findings are difficult to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270395
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Knowledge and growth in the very long run
Strulik, Holger - 2010
This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanism between capital accumulation and the ease of knowledge diffusion explains a long epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by a gradual economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289011
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Knowledge and growth in the very long run
Strulik, Holger - 2012
This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanism between capital accumulation and the ease of knowledge diffusion explains a long epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by a gradual economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311672
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Globalization and taste convergence : the cases of wine and beer
Aizenman, Joshua; Brooks, Eileen L. - 2005
data on 38 countries from 1963-2000, there is clear convergence in the consumption of wine relative to beer between 1963 … and 2000. Convergence occurs even more quickly within groups of countries that have a higher degree of integration. A key … converging, several Latin American countries fail to converge. The patterns of convergence are consistent with dynamics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520443
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The fertility transition around the world
Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - In: Journal of population economics 28 (2015) 1, pp. 31-44
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469621
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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264936
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Takeoffs
Aizenman, Joshua; Spiegel, Mark - 2007
This paper identifies factors associated with takeoff - a sustained period of high growth following a period of stagnation. We examine a panel of 241 stagnation episodes" from 146 countries, 54 % of these episodes are followed by takeoffs. Countries that experience takeoffs average 2.3% annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285304
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Religiosity and income : a panel cointegration and causality analysis
Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781377
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Religiosity and long-run productivity growth
Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger - 2016
In this paper, we show, using a panel of developed countries, that there is a long-run negative association between church attendance and total factor productivity (TFP) with predictive causality running from declining church attendance to increasing factor productivity. According to our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490822