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relationship between progressivity and economic growth. Regressions do not reveal a significant impact of progressivity on growth …
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This paper examines real and financial linkages between Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries. Growth spillovers from …
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constraints and small economic size. This paper explores the potential linkages between export structure and economic growth and … industries. The empirical analysis finds that export diversification may promote economic growth and reduce economic volatility …
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This paper provides evidence of a strong relationship between the short-term dynamics of growth and inequality in … developing economies. We find that reductions in inequality during growth upswings are largely reversed during growth slowdowns … channel through which fluctuations in growth affect future dynamics in inequality. These findings suggest that both the …
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important growth spillovers in the region, and identifies the main source countries and those most vulnerable to the economic … conditions of others. Estimates show that in the short run, positive idiosyncratic shocks to regional trading partners' growth … significantly increase growth in the average sub-Saharan African country, while in the long-run the annual impact of growth in …
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finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce …
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We assess the aggregate productivity impact of distortions arising from labor regulations in Mexico and how they interact with informality. Using employment surveys and a firm-level economic census, we document a number of novel features about informal firms in Mexico. We then construct and...
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leaders and followers innovating in few industries with low aggregate growth …
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This paper provides empirical evidence that the size of the spillovers from U.S. monetary policy to non-oil GDP growth … effectiveness of monetary policy are discussed. We find that the level of oil prices tends to dampen or amplify the growth impact of …
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This paper presents a structural model of crime and output. Individuals make an occupational choice between criminal and legal activities. The return to becoming a criminal is endogenously determined in a general equilibrium together with the level of crime and economic activity. I calibrate the...
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