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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are … out the difficulties that restrictions on the free movement of workers bring about. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU …
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Long term growth perspectives in Japan and the euro area
Dreger, Christian - 2017
Euro area countries and Japan are confronted with similar challenges. Potential output is on a falling trend in the euro area, and the decrease started well before the financial crisis. In Japan, low output growth is a striking feature since many years, despite the unconventional monetary policy...
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Is government ownership of banks really harmful to growth?
Andrianova, Svetlana; Demetriades, Panicos O.; … - 2010 - Corrected version, September 2010
We put forward a modern version of the 'developmental' view of government-owned banks which shows that the combination of information asymmetries and weak institutions creates scope for such banks to play a growth-promoting role. We present new cross-country evidence consistent with our...
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Economic effects of transportation infrastructure quantity and quality : a study of German counties
Gaus, Dennis; Link, Heike - 2020
In this paper, we analyze the impact of transportation infrastructure quantity and quality on regional economic production. We exploit an extensive panel dataset on the German county level (N=401), expressing the capital value and condition of highways between 2007 and 2016, to estimate a...
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The Nexus of CO2 emissions, energy consumption, economic growth, and trade-openness in WTO countries
Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne - 2017
This paper analyzes the dynamic relationship between CO2 emissions, energy consumption, GDP, and trade-openness from 1971 to 2013, based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 70 WTO countries. Using recently developed secondgeneration panel data methods, the empirical results...
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Zukunftsgestaltung ohne Wirtschaftswachstum? : Ergebnisse eines Workshops des DIW im Auftrag von Greenpeace Deutschland
Blazejczak, Jürgen (ed.) - Workshop Zukunftsgestaltung ohne Wirtschaftswachstum? …; … - 1998
Wirtschaftswachstum einhellig auch im Rahmen eines Nachhaltigkeitsparadigmas für möglich gehalten wurde, kamen die Teilnehmer überwiegend … zu der Einschätzung, daß eine Lösung der wesentlichen Zukunftsprobleme auch bei fehlendem Wirtschaftswachstum möglich ist. …
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Fiscal federalism in Western European and selected other countries : centralization or decentralization? : what is better for economic growth?
Thießen, Ulrich - 2000
durchgeführt. Als abhängige Variable in den Regressionen wird aber nicht nur das Wirtschaftswachstum berücksichtigt, sondern auch … Wirtschaftswachstum und seinen Komponenten -auf der einen Seite- und fiskalischer Dezentralisierung -auf der anderen Seite- zu bestehen …
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Corruption, growth, and the environment : a cross-country analysis
Welsch, Heinz - 2003
The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...
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Unemployment and productivity growth : an empirical analysis within the augmented Solow model
Bräuninger, Michael; Pannenberg, Markus - 2016
Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on the growth rate and the level of productivity....
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Islamic banking, credit and economic growth : some empirical evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Helmi, Mohamad Husam - 2016
This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including bothIslamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies, it...
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