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The Effect of Tax and Public Debt on Economic Growth: Worldwide Cross-Sectional Evidence
SAGE OpenThe objective of this study is to examine the effect of taxes and public debt on economic growth. By using a battery of tests and procedures (including quantile regression and extreme bounds analysis) on a set of cross-sectional data covering 177 ...
E. Merza, I. Khatatbeh
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Latin America and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
EconomiAEmployment losses in 2020 were larger in Latin America than in any other region. We show that the prevalence of informality, micro-entrepreneurship, and jobs-not-fit for remote work in nonessential sectors accounts for this outcome in both simulations ...
Laura Alfaro +2 more
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Fiscal policy volatility and capital misallocation: Evidence from China
European Economic ReviewCan a demand-side macroeconomic shock be a driver of capital misallocation in China? Using cross-province data, we find a positive effect of fiscal policy volatility on the dispersion of risk-adjusted marginal revenue product of capital (MRPK), and the ...
Sai Ding +3 more
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Industrial Espionage and Productivity
The American Economic Review, 2020 In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage. We show that the flow of information provided by East German informants in the West over the period 1970–1989 led to a significant narrowing of sectoral TFP gaps between West and
A. Glitz, E. Meyersson
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Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015 What are the prospects for long-run economic growth? One prominent line of economic thinking is the trend toward stagnation. Stagnationism has a long history in economics, beginning prominently with Malthus and occasionally surfacing in different guises.
W. Nordhaus, W. Nordhaus, W. Nordhaus
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If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2013 We study the cross-country evolution of technology diffusion over the last two centuries. We document that adoption lags between poor and rich countries have converged, while the intensity of use of adopted technologies of poor countries relative to rich
Diego Comin, M. Mestieri
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Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth
Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), 2019 Applying the Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2001) decomposition to plant-level manufacturing data from Chile and Korea, we find that the entry and exit of plants account for a larger fraction of aggregate productivity growth during periods of fast GDP ...
Jose Asturias +3 more
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Risk-sharing and entrepreneurship
Journal of comparative economics (Print)In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice.
Matilda Kilström, P. Roth
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THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL FINANCE ON FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN MOROCCO
European Journal of Economic and Financial ResearchThis study examines the impact of digital finance on financial inclusion in Morocco. Adopting a quantitative methodology, the study is based on data collected from 454 individual bank customers and data analysis is carried out using structural equation ...
Abdellah Lakhouil, Maria Segdali
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The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989–2009
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018 We exploit a novel and unique opportunity to document the transmission of income risk to consumption in a growing economy. Our laboratory is China, an economy that has witnessed enormous and sustained growth.
Yu Zheng, Raul Santaeulalia
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