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Intelligence and economic sophistication

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  • Athanasios Lapatinas

    (European Commission, Joint Research Centre
    University of Ioannina)

  • Anastasia Litina

    (University of Ioannina)

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Backed by strong empirical results, obtained from several different specification and sensitivity analyses, this paper contends that countries with high-intellectual quotient populations produce and export more sophisticated/complex products. This result is further reinforced by the quality of democracy.

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  • Athanasios Lapatinas & Anastasia Litina, 2019. "Intelligence and economic sophistication," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 57(5), pages 1731-1750, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:empeco:v:57:y:2019:i:5:d:10.1007_s00181-018-1511-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s00181-018-1511-y
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    Keywords

    Intelligence; Economic sophistication; Complexity; Democracy; Institutions;
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    JEL classification:

    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;

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