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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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Adaptive economic growth [PDF]
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2005 This paper develops an evolutionary theory of adaptive growth, understood as a product of structural change and economic self-transformation, based upon processes that are closely connected with but not reducible to the growth of knowledge. The dominant connecting theme is enterprise, the innovative variations it generates and the multiple connections ...
Metcalfe, J. Stan +2 more
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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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MEASURING ECONOMIC GROWTH FROM OUTER SPACE
The American Economic Review, 2012 GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment
J. Henderson +2 more
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Innovation and Economic Growth [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Abstract Economic history addresses the issue of the way in which the record of economic growth is related to historical developments. This article argues that technological and organizational innovation are responsible for this lengthy period of gradually accelerating growth.
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Financial Innovation, 2020 Developing countries are facing the problem of environmental degradation. Environmental degradation is caused by the use of non-renewable energy consumptions for economic growth but the consequences of environmental degradation cannot be ignored.
Muhammad Kamran Khan +2 more
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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 Cleaner Production, 2020 The current rise of protectionism has become the main uncertainty associated with global energy, economy, and the environment. Furthermore, the decoupling carbon emissions from economic growth is crucial for implementing Intended Nationally Determined ...
Qiang Wang, Fuyu Zhang
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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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Pollution and economic growth [PDF]
The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 1998 We analyse a model of overlapping generations in which clean air, a pure public good, is used as a private input into production. Although production exhibits constant returns to scale. endogenous growth can occur. In a laissez-faire equilibrium, firms generate rents that are the value of the pollution they create.
Fisher, Eric O'N. +1 more
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