[PDF] Top 20 The contribution of university rankings to country's GDP per capita

... Sianesi and Van Reenen (2000) had a few important findings that are worth highlighting. First, neo-classical tradition argues that a one-off permanent increase in the human capital stock will cause a one- off increase in ... See full document

... country’s GDP in ...the country requires a reliable, consistent and accurate GDP forecasts to conduct a progressive monetary and fiscal ...forecast GDP per capita for the period ... See full document

... Many university administrato rs abhor “this form of detailed numerical ordering of the institutions” (Monks and Ehrenberg 1999) but as Merisotis (2002) has noted, university rankings are here to ... See full document

... for GDP per capita at the NUTS-2 regions, now France and Ireland are both slightly higher than the UK, and again Hungary and Slovakia still have higher ...the GDP per capita of ... See full document

... In Korea, Sohn (2005) used the gravity model to explore the determinants of Korea’s bilateral trade flows and to extract implications for Korea’s trade policy. In this paper, new explanatory variables, such as the Trade ... See full document

... per capita GDP. Opportunity inequality can affect long-run per capita ...or per capita GDP (Rodríguez, ...on per capita income and economic growth in ... See full document

... ouvcom : is the openness trade calculate by the sum of export and import of the WAEMU as a share of GDP (in %). It needs to underline that there is all a discussion on the calculation of the openness trade ... See full document

... We conduct two robustness checks that concern the weights used in our analysis. Throughout the analysis, we use inverse-variance weights, which are common in the research synthesis literature: they increase the ... See full document

... host country GDP is a significant factor that affects the flow of ...the GDP of the country which is an indication of the growing opportunities that motivate the multinational to invest their ... See full document

... Naturally, these conclusions are only prelimi- nary. More work, using alternative data, additional years and variables, alternative specifications, and, ultimately, data for the four new OECD nations (joining in 2010) as ... See full document

... The majority of econometric estimates of Table 3 are in favor of a positive and statistically significant influence of the variable of education on economic freedom. The only exception comes from estimates shown in ... See full document

... country-specific political, economic and general living conditions (WHO,1997). The quality, efficiency and equity of services are contingent on the availability of skilled and competent health professionals. ... See full document

... I will tell you a story. You call to mind my own mother, Nyandang. She is or was a slave, a woman that ran away from her master and married for love. My father was jailed on several occasions because it was theft to ... See full document

... The study uses a panel dataset for the foreign between Macedonia and 39 trading partners over the period 1999:Q1-2009:Q4. Data for Macedonia are compiled from the State Statistical Office and the Central bank; data on ... See full document

... For the investigation on the role of saving wedge, we also decompose the net total capital inflows into saving and investment. The idea is to check the impact of productiv- ity growth on the net total capital inflows ... See full document

... extrapolation decaying with the distance from the given year. In this study, the number of 5-year- olds in 2001 is the reference distribution. So, using this age we are able to estimate the evolution of GDP till ... See full document

... Many economists have started to incorporate additional conditions into the standard HOS model to clarify the effect of trade openness on income inequality. Meschi and Vivarelli (2009) relax the assumption of homogenous ... See full document

... From the above results, a successful large economy might be characterized by GDP increment randomly fluctuating around some constant level. It is very probable that the fluctuations are normally distributed. This ... See full document

... in per capita or per unit of output terms, as well as waste water discharge, do ...with per capita GDP and per capita pollution abatement ...(log) per ... See full document

... Implementing this measure for Slovakia, our results indicate that relative welfare is approximately 10 percentage points higher in Slovakia than GDP per capita would suggest. In the medium run, ... See full document