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A Romerian Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

Sağlam, Bahar Bayraktar; Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012

Mankiw Romer and Weil (1992) made the Solovian set up widely-used to test the determinants of economic growth and the speed of convergence. Subsequently, in almost all convergence studies, an exogenously growing technology is assumed and this component is treated as part of the constant term. In...

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Defense Spending and Economic Growth:A Theoretical Manifestation for Empirical Studies

Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012

Defense literature is still in need of a theoretical framework in the neoclassical sense, in regard to empirical research on the relationship between defense spending and economic growth. In this respect, Dunne, Smith and Willenbockel (2005), although not without technical problems, represented...

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Does Gender Matter for Economic Convergence? The OECD Evidence

Kýlýnç, Dilara; Yetkiner, Hakan - 2013

This work studies the role of gender on economic convergence in a standard convergence model expanded by gender shares of labor force. The theoretical part of the paper shows the positive role of gender on economic growth. Next, the paper presents 5-year span panel data tests of the contribution...

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Input-Output Networks and Growth Performances across Countries

Duman, Alper; Ertan Özgüzer, Gül - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth performances of countries and their structural input-output network characteristics. We employ a new centrality measure developed by Blöchl et al. (2011) for directed networks with self-loops to determine sectoral heterogeneities...

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State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six Millennia

Borcan, Oana; Olsson, Ola; Putterman, Louis - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

All since the rise of the first civilizations, economic development has been closely intertwined with the evolution of states. In this paper, we contribute to the literature on state history and long-run economic development in four ways. First, we extend and complete the state history index...

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Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific Revival

Bigsten, Arne - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

This paper reviews evidence on the evolution of international economic integration of Asia-Pacific countries, and discusses the extent to which this explains their recent growth success. It starts with a review of some theoretical arguments in the growth and globalisation debate, which is...

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Risiken für die Emerging Markets in Mittel- und Osteuropa vor dem Hintergrund der Erfahrungen Thailands, Mexikos und Tschechiens ; Beitrag für den Projektbericht: Währungspolitisch...

Sell, Friedrich L. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 1999

Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht die Ursachen von Finanzmarktkrisen anhand entsprechender Vorkommnisse in Thailand, Mexiko und Tschechien, um risikoreiche Konstellationen für Emerging Markets zu identifizieren. Als Modell wurde der Ansatz von Sachs/Tornell/Velasco (1996) gewählt, der durch...

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Las patentes aceleran o retrasan la comercializacion de nuevos medicamentos en los paises en desarrollo?

Arque, Joan Ramon Borrell - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2004

This paper analyses the impact of patents on the dynamics of new drug introduction into different national markets. By studying a set of markets for HIV/AIDS drugs in a sample of developing countries, we find that patents only make the introduction of new drugs significantly quicker in the case...

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R&D Productivity and Firm Size in Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Citation Yields

Dindaroğlu, Burak - 2011

: the number of citations received per patented innovation, and the number of citations received per dollar of R … obtained per dollar of investments. I find that the average quality of patents (citations received per patent) falls with firm … size in Pharmaceuticals, but there is no relationship between patent quality and firm size in Semiconductors. Citations …

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Ranking Leading Econometrics Journals Using Citations Data from ISI and RePEc

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014

econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI … weighted and unweighted transformations of citations, are highlighted to show which RAMs are able to provide informational … value relative to others. The RAMs include the impact factor, mean citations and non-citations, journal policy, number of …

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