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14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2008
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This half semester class presents an...
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Education, Innovation, and Growth - Critical Appraisal and Cliometric Analyses with Implications for Present Economic Policy
Müller, Normann - 2009
'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a … education. Further, by differentiating 'education' and 'knowledge' it becomes obvious that growth externalities according to …
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The diagnosis and treatment of disparities in United Kingdom regional economic performance: a critique
Jackson, Anthony - 2009
Regional policy has taken the centre stage in delivering current UK government efforts to promote productivity-driven economic growth. This article considers the validity of the prime indicator being used to assess regional economic performance: gross value added (GVA) per head. Evidence...
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Productivity Growth, Decoupling and Pollution Leakage
Turner, Karen; Hanley, Nick; Cui, Cathy Xin; Soo, Jung Ha; … - 2011
This paper examines the issue of decoupling economic growth and pollution through growth driven by productivity improvements; and the extent to which pollution effects spill over national borders. Focus is widened from conventional production measures of pollution to a consumption accounting...
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The Impact of Foreign Investments on the Achievement of Economic Growth
Maitah, M.; Salim, N. - 2010
This article deals with the analysis of the positive side of the foreign direct investments in the World´s economy. The importance of this research is derived from the significant role that can be played by foreign investments in industrialized and developing countries. Some countries are still...
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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …
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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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Under-connected and over-connected networks
Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim - 2008
. We approach this gap by analyzing the role of positive and negative externalities of link formation. We find general … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …-defined sense, while situations with negative externalities, tend to induce "too dense" networks. …
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