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agricultural investment priority areas for a country and to define milestones to track its progress towards the Malabo goals. The … productivity. Second, the economy-wide analysis uses an agricultural and investment focused computable general equilibrium model to … and simulation of the Malabo goals on poverty and hunger. The modeling framework is applied to Kenya using the most recent …
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Evidence suggests that banks tend to lend a lot during booms, and very little during recessions. We propose a simple explanation for this phenomenon. We show that, instead of dampening productivity shocks, the banking sector tends to exacerbate them, leading to excessive fluctuations of credit,...
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This study examines how equity market fragmentation affects firms’ capital investment decisions. Recent empirical … precision information to managers and/or creditors about firms’ investment opportunities. Consistent with this notion, our … findings reveal that the association between capital investment and investment opportunities is increasing in market …
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experiments to assess the welfare effects of trade and investment liberalization in general equilibrium. Specifically, we address … the question of whether and under which circumstances a single versus a combined trade/investment liberalization strategy …. The focus of this paper is to look at three highly relevant questions. First, when is investment liberalization beneficial …
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