Research

Publications

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2024) Inflation and Inequality: New Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Threshold Analysis. International Economics and Economic Policy. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10368-023-00580-x 

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2023): The 'Double Trap' in China - Multiple Equilibria in Institutions and Income and Their Causal Relationship. Open Economies Review. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-022-09693-3  Key Findings 

• Glawe, L. and Mendez, C. (2023): Schooling Ain't Learning in Europe: A Club Convergence Perspective. Comparative Economic Studies. doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41294-022-00194-3  Interactive Figures 

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2023): New Evidence on the Human Capital Dynamics within China: Is There a Human Capital Trap? Singapore Economic Review. doi: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590823500145 

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2022): Is Schooling the Same as Learning? - The Impact of the Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling on Growth in a Dynamic Panel Data Framework. World Development 151: 105773. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105773 

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2021): Convergence, Divergence, or Multiple Steady States? New Evidence on the Institutional Development within the European Union. Journal of Comparative Economics, 49(3): 860-884. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2021.01.006.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2021): Divergence Tendencies in the European Integration Process: A Danger for the Sustainability of the E(M)U? Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14(3), 104: 1-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14030104.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2020): The Role of Institutional Quality and Human Capital for Economic Growth across Chinese Provinces – A Dynamic Panel Data Approach. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 18(3): 209-227. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2020.1755140.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2020): The Middle-Income Trap 2.0: The Increasing Role of Human Capital in the Age of Automation and Implications for Developing Asia. Asian Economic Papers 19(3): 40-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00783

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2020): China in the Middle-Income Trap? China Economic Review 60, 101264: 1-25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.01.003.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2019): The Deep Determinants of Economic Development in China - A Provincial Perspective. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 24(4): 484-514. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1354 7860.2019.1636610.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2016): The Middle-Income Trap - Definitions, Theories and Countries Concerned: A Literature Survey. Comparative Economic Studies 58(4): 507-538. doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41294-016-0014-0.

Books and Chapters in Books

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2022): The Economic Rise of East Asia – Development Paths of Japan, South Korea, and China. Springer International Publishing, 350 pages. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87128-4

•  Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2022): New Evidence on the Impact of Institutions on Economic Development in China. In: Parent, A. and Le Riche, A. (Eds.): Institutional Change and China Capitalism: Frontier of Cliometrics and Its Application to China. World Scientific Publishing: London. doi: https://doi.org/10.1142/q0331

Working Papers

• Glawe, L. and Mendez, C. (2024) Harmonized luminosity and economic activity across provinces in China: Cross-sectional differences, regional time series, and inequality dynamics.

• Glawe, L. (2023) Club Convergence in Innovation Activity - Evidence from the US.

• Glawe, L. (2023) Nonlinearities in the Institutions-Growth Relationship in a Dynamic Panel Data Framework: Evidence from China’s Provinces. (Updated Version) 

• Glawe, L., Santos-Marquez, F., and Mendez, C. (2023) When Regions Grow Solo(w): Neoclassical Convergence and Spatial Filtering across Chinese Provinces.

• Glawe, L., Mendez, C., and Santos-Marquez, F. (2023) National and Subnational Inequality in Africa: A Club Convergence View from Outer Space.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2020): New Evidence on the Human Capital Dynamics within China – Is There a Human Capital Trap? SSRN Working Paper No 3769430 and CEAMeS WP 18/2020 

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2019): The Role of Institutional Quality for Economic Growth in Europe. SSRN Working Paper No. 3375215.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2017): The Deep Determinants at More Subtle Stages of Economic Development - The Example of the Middle-Income Trap, SSRN Working Paper No. 3085417.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2017): The Deep Determinants of the Middle-Income Trap, SSRN Working Paper No. 3085293.

• Glawe, L. and Wagner, H. (2017): A Stylized Model of China's Growth since 1978, SSRN Working Paper No. 2917433.