International trade, economic growth and intellectual property rights: A panel data study of developed and developing countries
In: Journal of development economics, Volume 78, Issue 2, p. 529-547
ISSN: 0304-3878
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In: Journal of development economics, Volume 78, Issue 2, p. 529-547
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Kyklos: international review for social sciences, Volume 59, Issue 4, p. 611-626
ISSN: 1467-6435
SUMMARYThis paper examines the distribution of economic research as catalogued in the Journal of Economic Literature across countries of the world and attempts to explain those patterns. We report the number of articles published on each country and estimate a series of regressions to understand this pattern. We find that measures of a country's size (physical and economic), connections with the outside world and data availability explain much of the pattern of research. We also find that tourism receipts, whether English is an official language, and the number of economic research institutions are significantly correlated with the amount of research done on a country. After controlling for all the variables, we find only three regions (all in Africa) with significantly less research published by economists in Journal of Economic Literature cataloged articles than North America.