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Can institutions explain cross country differences in innovative activity?

Wang, Cong - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 37 (2013) C, pp. 128-145

institutions on R&D, this paper aims to provide some empirical analysis on the relationship between the two variables. In … institutions on R&D intensity. Countries with better institutions qualities as captured by the World Banks’ Worldwide Governance … paper has also found evidence that the effect of institutions varies in different economies characterized by different …

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Rapid Growth in the CIS: Is It Sustainable?

Iradian, Garbis - 2007

This paper analyses some of the main factors behind the recent rapid growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the prospects for its continuation. Two approaches are used. The first approach uses growth accounting exercises to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth...

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Characteristics and Behavior of African Commodity/Product Markets and Market Institutions and Their Consequences for Economic Growth

Jerome, Afeikhena; Ogunkola, Olawale - Center for International Development, Kennedy School of … - 2000

This study examines the characteristics and behaviour of key commodity/product markets and market institutions in … transaction costs and weak institutions. Government heavy intervention, persistent shortages of market infrastructure and lack of …

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Rapid Growth in the CIS: Is It Sustainable?

Iradian, Garbis - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2007

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Is trade liberalization, economic growth, energy consumption good for the environment?

Jabeen, Asma - In: Romanian Journal of Fiscal Policy (RJFP) 6 (2015) 2, pp. 1-13

The study attempts to identify the dynamic relationship between trade, income growth, energy consumption and CO2 emissions for Pakistan. Johansen's Cointegration procedure has been employed to estimate the coefficients of the Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive model. The results reveal that...

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Do Frontiers give of do frontiers take ? The case of intercontinental trade in France at the end of the Ancien Régime

Daudin, Guillaume - Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Sciences … - 2003

This paper studies the role of the French intercontinental trading maritime frontier in domestic capital accumulation at the end of the Ancien Régime. It uses O'Brien's method to measure the amount of annual profits generated in this sector. The net gain is then computed by computing how much...

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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Rosés, Joan R.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - 2007

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...

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Is trade liberalization, economic growth, energy consumption good for the environment? : time series evidence from Pakistan

Jabeen, Asma - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 6 (2015) 2, pp. 1-13

The study attempts to identify the dynamic relationship between trade, income growth, energy consumption and CO2 emissions for Pakistan. Johansen’s Cointegration procedure has been employed to estimate the coefficients of the Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive model. The results reveal that...

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Deviant behavior : a century of Philippine industrialization

Dios, Emmanuel S. de; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2013

Recent work has documented industrial output growth around the poor periphery from 1870 to the present, finding unconditional convergence on the leaders long before the modern BRICS and even before the Asian Tigers. The Philippines was very much part of that catching up. In the decade or so up...

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Trade Policy Disaster

Irwin, Douglas A. - The MIT Press

The recent economic crisis--with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment--has been reminiscent of the Great Depression. The Depression of the 1930s was marked by the spread of protectionist trade policies,...

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