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Trade Liberalisation And Growth: A Threshold Expectation, Rod Falvey, Neil Foster-Mcgregor, Ahmed Khalid Jul 2014

Trade Liberalisation And Growth: A Threshold Expectation, Rod Falvey, Neil Foster-Mcgregor, Ahmed Khalid

Ahmed Khalid

Openness and trade liberalisation variables are consistently estimated to have significant positive coefficients in panel growth regressions. Many arguments have been advanced as to why and how more open or liberalised economies might grow faster, but the specific channels this process uses have begun to be investigated only recently. We continue these efforts by including a variable identifying the date of trade liberalisation in a system of equations that captures the determinants of growth in per capita income. Four ‘channels’ are considered: capital formation, the share of government, the economy’s openness to trade and its price distortions. We include the …


Trade Liberalisation And Growth: A Threshold Expectation, Rod Falvey, Neil Foster-Mcgregor, Ahmed Khalid Jul 2014

Trade Liberalisation And Growth: A Threshold Expectation, Rod Falvey, Neil Foster-Mcgregor, Ahmed Khalid

Rodney Falvey

Openness and trade liberalisation variables are consistently estimated to have significant positive coefficients in panel growth regressions. Many arguments have been advanced as to why and how more open or liberalised economies might grow faster, but the specific channels this process uses have begun to be investigated only recently. We continue these efforts by including a variable identifying the date of trade liberalisation in a system of equations that captures the determinants of growth in per capita income. Four ‘channels’ are considered: capital formation, the share of government, the economy’s openness to trade and its price distortions. We include the …


Managing The Supply And Demand Of Raw Talent In High Growth Sectors Post The Economic Crisis, Lee Styger Mar 2014

Managing The Supply And Demand Of Raw Talent In High Growth Sectors Post The Economic Crisis, Lee Styger

Lee Styger

No abstract provided.


Commercial And Economic Law In Australia, Eugene Clark, Lynden Griggs, George Cho, Arthur Hoyle, John Mclaren Feb 2014

Commercial And Economic Law In Australia, Eugene Clark, Lynden Griggs, George Cho, Arthur Hoyle, John Mclaren

John McLaren

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Special Issue On The Economic Effects Of Minimum Wages In Germany: Editorial, Alfredo Paloyo, Sandra Schaffner, Christoph Schmidt Feb 2014

Special Issue On The Economic Effects Of Minimum Wages In Germany: Editorial, Alfredo Paloyo, Sandra Schaffner, Christoph Schmidt

Alfredo R Paloyo

This special issue of the German Economic Review addresses one of the most contentious areas of modern labor economics: the economic effects of statutory minimum wages. This topic is as challenging intellectually as the publication of these studies is timely. With respect to the analytical challenge to be mastered, the history of labor economic thought on this issue demonstrates the vicissitudes of empirical research in all the social sciences, not the least in Economics, which operate in an ever-changing environment, with new preferences, new institu- tions and new data emerging all the time. In fact, within the realm of econom- …


The Regional Economic Effects Of Military Base Realignments And Closures In Germany, Alfredo Paloyo, Colin Vance, Matthias Vorell Feb 2014

The Regional Economic Effects Of Military Base Realignments And Closures In Germany, Alfredo Paloyo, Colin Vance, Matthias Vorell

Alfredo R Paloyo

We identify the causal effect of a reduction in military personnel on a number of socioeconomic indicators within the peripheries of military bases. The base realignments and closures in Germany are used as an exogenous source of variation that allows us to identify the effect of a demand shock on household income, output, unemployment, and tax revenue within a specified buffer zone around each base. The analysis covers 298 communities for the period 2003-2007. Consistent with evidence found elsewhere, we find that these base adjustments have only a marginal impact on the local community in which the bases are located.