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338 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18182
Economic Development in the 21st Century
Carmel U. Chiswick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18110
Economics for a Safe Operating Space: A Green-Growth-Degrowth Model
Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17900
The Green Path: FDI’s Influence on Asia’s Sustainable Economic Growth
Anh Le Ngoc, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17875
Wage Profiles in STEM and Non-STEM Careers
Michael Alexeev, Yevgenia Chernina, Vladimir Gimpelson, Darya Zinchenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17857
Protection for Whom? The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws for Women
Matthias Doepke, Hanno Foerster, Anne Hannusch, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17806
The Role of Business Visits in Fostering R&D Investment
Massimiliano Tani, Marco Vivarelli, Mariacristina Piva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17747
Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future
Sascha O. Becker, Amma Panin, Steven Pfaff, Jared Rubin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17581
Heterogeneous Innovations and Growth Under Imperfect Technology Spillovers
Karam Jo, Seula Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17495
Regionalism, Productivity, and Innovation
Rolando Avendano, Massimiliano Tani, Lovely C. Tolin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17433
Firm Ownership Control and Management Practices, with an Update on Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Dabalen, Saumik Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17392
Monopsony in Growth Theory
Pietro Garibaldi, Enrico D. Turri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17281
Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship
Gaurav Chiplunkar, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17213
Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17158
Entrepreneurship Is Dangerously Obsessed with Growth and Incompatible with Current Visions of a Post-growth Society
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17150
Financial Inclusion and Threshold Effects in Carbon Emissions
Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh, Christophe Rault
revised version published in: Energy Policy, 2024, 192,114265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17075
The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward
Wim Naudé
published online in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 25 April 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17045
Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence
Dmitry Veselov, Alexander Yarkin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17031
Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament
André Diegmann, Laura Pohlan, Andrea Weber
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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17026
R&D Decisions and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands
Sabien Dobbelaere, Michael D. König, Andrin Spescha, Martin Wörter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16794
Efficiency in Poverty Reduction: A State-Level Analysis for Bolivia
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas, Javier Beverinotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16771
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Price-Driven Growth in a Solow-Swan Economy with an Environmental Limit
Michael C. Burda, Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16766
Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of New Ideas: Is an Economic Growth Explosion Imminent?
Derick Almeida, Wim Naudé, Tiago Neves Sequeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16761
Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits
Ricardo Dahis, Christiane Szerman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16747
Employment Protection Legislation and Job Reallocation across Sectors, Firms and Workers: A Survey
Pierre Cahuc, Marco G. Palladino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16723
Factor Shares, Redistribution and Growth in a Captured Democracy
Andrea Vindigni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16715
Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation Policies
Susana Ferreira
published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024, 16, 207-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16671
Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru
Andrea Atencio-De-Leon, Munseob Lee, Claudia Macaluso
published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2025, 7 (1), 56–70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16611
Nonlinear Propagation of Sectoral Productivity Shocks with Variable Elasticities of Substitution
Saumik Paul, Dhushyanth Raju
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16553
The Plant-Level View of Korea's Growth Miracle and Slowdown
Munseob Lee, Yongseok Shin
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2024, 57 (3), 704–725
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16530
Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
Munseob Lee
published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (665), 3333–3359
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494
Religion and Growth
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16486
Alberto Alesina (1957-2020): Man, Researcher, Professor of Economics, Popularizer
Andrea Vindigni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16483
Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 292–328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16408
Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology
Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé, Erik Stam
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16396
The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad
Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, Roman David Zarate, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16377
Population Aging and Economic Growth: From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?
Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16191
We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16139
Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16106
Inflation Expectations and Misallocation of Resources: Evidence from Italy
Tiziano Ropele, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Olivier Coibion
published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2024, 6 (2), 246–261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16047
(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 243, 111921
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043
Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look
Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924
Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15853
Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions: New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries
Mouna Ben Abdeljelil, Christophe Rault, Fateh Belaïd
published in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2023, 56, 1537-1566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15846
Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Parks in Ethiopia
Selamawit G. Kebede, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15760
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Pavel Chakraborty, Rahul Singh, Vidhya Soundararajan
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (4), 741–771,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15722
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity.
Gianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport, Gianluca Santoni
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103443
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713
The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15669
A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor
published in: International Productivity Monitor, 2022, 43, 10-40.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15648
Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
Sarah Gust, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 166, 103205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15598
The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income
Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Marco Frigerio
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