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European Journal of Futures Research, 2020 Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous external inputs of chemicals, machinery, advice,
Elena Pagliarino +4 more
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Communications and economic growth
European Economic Review, 1999 Abstract Over the past millennium, each of the three centuries of most rapid demographic growth in the West coincided with the diffusion of a new communications technology. This paper examines the hypothesis of Harold Innis (1894–1952) that there is two-way feedback between such innovations and economic growth.
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Taxation and Economic Growth [PDF]
Fiscal Studies, 2000 AbstractThe development of endogenous growth theory has opened an avenue through which the effects of taxation on economic growth can be explored. Explicit modelling of the individual decisions that contribute to growth allows the analysis of tax incidence and the prediction of growth effects.
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Economic transition and growth [PDF]
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009 AbstractSome extensions of neoclassical growth models are discussed that allow for cross‐section heterogeneity among economies and evolution in rates of technological progress over time. The models offer a spectrum of transitional behavior among economies that includes convergence to a common steady‐state path as well as various forms of transitional ...
Peter C. B. PHILLIPS,, Sul, D.
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Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2020 This work aims to shed new light on the relation between institutional performance and firm dynamics. Considering the Italian manufacturing industry and a panel of 3 years, the authors investigate the relation between the time needed by courts to enforce
Greta Falavigna, Roberto Ippoliti
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The study examines the impact of the Microfinance Institutions’ (MFIs) size on their client targeting. Using MFI clients’ household data, the study considers household income, wealth, human development, caste, settlement type, and purposes of loans as ...
Sunil Sangwan +3 more
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Cambridge Prisms: Coastal FuturesEfforts on loss and damage assessments primarily focus on the macro-level assessments that often overlook micro-level heterogeneity. This paper adopts a bottom-up approach by measuring household-level L&Ds from cyclones.
Saudamini Das
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Legal environment and corporate finance: evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry
Journal of Economic Structures, 2021 Considering the Italian manufacturing industry between 2014 and 2016 (more than 250,000 observations), this technical note analyzes the relation between the courts’ ability to enforce credit rights and the opportunity to finance business activities with ...
Greta Falavigna, Roberto Ippoliti
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Infrastructure and Economic Growth [PDF]
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2021 I estimate the effect that growth in countries’ GDP per capita has on the growth rate of infrastructure. In order to extract exogenous variation in GDP per capita growth, I use the growth of the international oil price multiplied with countries’ GDP shares of oil net-exports as an instrumental variable.
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Countervailing Conflicts of Interest in Delegation Games
Games, 2023 In this paper, we investigate optimal delegation mechanisms in the presence of countervailing conflicts of interest in the context of principal–agent problems.
Saori Chiba, Kaiwen Leong
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