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Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Leautier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2004

determinants of performance of cities. We construct a preliminary worldwide database for cities, containing variables and … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … globalization (at both the country as well as at the city level) do matter for city-level performance in terms of access and quality …

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Firm size and export performance: some empirical evidence

Gabbitas, Owen; Gretton, Paul - EconWPA - 2003

influences on export performance of Australian manufacturing firms may lie with a range of ‘firm-specific’ factors other than …

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Apparent Solow- and Solow-like Technological Residuals and the Economic Performance of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2004

This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...

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Did Industrialization Destroy Social Capital in Indonesia?

Miguel, Edward; Gertler, Paul; Levine, David - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the effect of industrialization on social capital in Indonesia during 1985 to 1997 using repeated cross-sections of nationally representative surveys. We analyze a rich set of social capital measures including multiple measures of voluntary associational activity, levels of...

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the Transition Process in China: A theoretic and empirical Study

Pu, Chen; Chihying, Hsiao - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we analyse the driving forces of the transition from plan to market in China. A two segments and two sectors model is constructed to take into account the particular economic situation in China during the transition process: a large agricultural sector and an industrial sector; a...

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Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2005

This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology, and population over the entire...

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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways

Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...

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TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF U.S.-EAST ASIA COMMODITY TRADE, 1962-1992

Singh, Nirvikar; Carolan, Terrie - EconWPA - 2004

We examine the composition of bilateral trade between the United States and each of eight Asian Pacific economies from 1962 to 1992. Two complementary time series analyses of individual commodities at the SITC four-digit level indicate that significant change occurred in trade composition during...

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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

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Software houses: Changing from Product vendors into solution Providers

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2005

Integrating hitherto separate IT systems while keeping within with tight budgetary restrictions is becoming the dominant software trend in this decade. Optimism is currently starting to spread again in software houses. However, there are marked regional differences in potential. Contrary to some...

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