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Credit quantity and credit quality: Bank competition and capital accumulation

Cetorelli, Nicola; Peretto, Pietro F. - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 3, pp. 967-998

In this paper we show that bank competition has an intrinsically ambiguous impact on capital accumulation. We further show that it is also responsible for the emergence of development traps in economies that otherwise would be characterized by unique equilibria. These results explain the...

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The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century

Henriksen, Ingrid; Lampe, Markus; Sharp, Paul - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2010

We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the cooperative ownership form in the Danish dairy industry...

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Knowledge-intensive business services and economic growth with endogenous market structure

Huang, Chien-Yu; Ji, Lei - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PA, pp. 95-106

The Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) sector has been growing in the US in the recent decades. KIBS are used to overcome the information friction between intermediate inputs and the input users that is generated by technology improvement. We use a Schumpeterian growth model with...

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Big businesses and economic growth: Identifying a binding constraint for growth with country panel analysis

Lee, Keun; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Park, Young-Yoon; Sanidas, Elias - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 2, pp. 561-582

A large body of qualitative studies on the positive role played by big businesses in promoting economic growth is widely available. However, any rigorous attempt to measure this impact has yet to be made. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap by utilizing new and internationally comparable...

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The Telecommunications Industry and Economic Growth: How the Market Structure Matters

Jerbashian, Vahagn - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2011

This paper presents an endogenous growth model where, in line with the recent empirical evidence, the telecommunications industry (telecom) is an engine of growth. In such a framework, this paper analyzes the channels through which telecom contributes to economic growth and focuses on market...

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Influence of import tariffs, accumulation of FER and external debt on economic growth depending on stages of economic development

Godunova, M. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association (2010) 5, pp. 28-45

This paper investigates the influence of import tariffs, external debt and speed of foreign reserves accumulation on economic growth. It follows from existing literature that these policies can have different influence on growth, depending on the relative stage of economic development. The...

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Ideas, increasing return to scale, and economic growth: an application for Iran

Farhidi, Faraz; Isfahani, Rahim; Emadzadeh, Mostafa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Iran has experienced an increasing rate of economic growth during recent years. We need to explain the causes of this growth if we are to help maintain it. In this study, we try to calibrate and apply a model in the context of new growth models, based on Ideas derived from the Iranian economy....

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Entrepreneurial talent and venture performance: A meta-analytic investigation of SMEs

Mayer-Haug, Katrin; Read, Stuart; Brinckmann, Jan; Dew, … - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 6, pp. 1251-1273

engines of economic activity. A significant body of research looking at antecedents to venture performance has identified that … entrepreneurial talent variables account for meaningful differences in venture performance and that significant heterogeneity exists … across performance measures. These are important issues for institutions and policy makers seeking to achieve specific …

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Portugal and Spain: catching up and falling behind. A comparative analysis of productivity trends and their causes, 1980-2007

Silva, Ester Gomes da - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

this paper an attempt is made to shed light on the causes behind the overall disappointing performance of both countries …

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Real Exchange Rates and Growth Surges

McLeod, Darryl; Mileva, Elitza - Economics Department, Fordham University - 2011

Maintaining a weak real exchange rate is a widely recommended growth strategy, in part because of the success of Asian exporters, most recently China. Simulations of a simple two-sector open economy growth model based on Matsuyama (1992) suggest that a weaker real exchange rate can lead to a...

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