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Estimating Interest Rate Setting Behavior in Brazil: A LSTR Model Approach

Baaziz, Yosra - In: Economies 3 (2015) 2, pp. 55-71

Given limited research on monetary policy rules in emerging markets, this paper challenges the applicability of a nonlinear Taylor rule in characterizing the monetary policy behavior of the Brazilian Central Bank. It also investigates whether and how the process of setting interest rates has...

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Decreasing Inequality Under Latin America’s “Social Democratic” and “Populist” Governments: Is the Difference Real?

Montecino, Juan A. - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

This paper addresses the claim that the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, Latin America’s so-called “left-populist” governments, have failed to effectively reduce inequality in the 2000s and have only benefitted from high commodity prices and other benign external...

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The IMF and Economic Recovery: Is Fund Policy Contributing to Downside Risks?

Weisbrot, Mark; Montecino, Juan Antonio - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

The IMF’s most recent World Economic Outlook (WEO), published last week, projects world economic growth will slow, from …

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Effects of Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy on the Stock Market in Poland

Hsing, Yu - In: Economies 1 (2013) 3, pp. 19-25

The focus of this paper is to examine potential impacts of fiscal and monetary policies on stock market performance in Poland. Applying the GARCH model and based on a sample during 1999.Q2 to 2012.Q4, this paper finds that Poland’s stock market index is not affected by the ratio of government...

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Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Great Recession

Caballero, Gonzalo - In: Economies 1 (2013) 2, pp. 15-18

World economy is living a time of change, and the complexity of change has implied a new research agenda on the role of economic policy in society. The role, types and effects of economic policy have been major issues in economic science since its origins. Jean Tinbergen (1956) [1] established...

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The Formation of New Monetary Policies: Decisions of Central Banks on the Great Recession

Castro, Ana Esther; Teixeira, José Francisco - In: Economies 2 (2014) 2, pp. 109-123

The effect that the Great Recession had on monetary policies has led to the profound reorientation of central banks’ actions from 2007 to 2013. The purpose of this work is to analyze the monetary policies applied by the main central banks, mainly the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve...

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A Game-Theoretic History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Zagare, Frank C. - In: Economies 2 (2014) 1, pp. 20-44

This study surveys and evaluates previous attempts to use game theory to explain the strategic dynamic of the Cuban missile crisis, including, but not limited to, explanations developed in the style of Thomas Schelling, Nigel Howard and Steven Brams. All of the explanations were judged to be...

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Internet Education and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions

Jin, Lawrence; Jin, Jang C. - In: Economies 2 (2014) 1, pp. 78-94

The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries … usage of the Internet has a positive and significant effect on economic growth. The estimated growth effect of Internet … skills is also found to be greater than the growth effect of math and science skills. The results are, in general, robust …

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The Changing Effectiveness of Monetary Policy

Leightner, Jonathan E. - In: Economies 1 (2013) 3, pp. 49-64

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, many countries are hoping that massive increases in their money supplies will revive their economies. Evaluating the effectiveness of this strategy using traditional statistical methods would require the construction of an extremely complex economic...

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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of <i>Economies</i> in 2014

Economies Editorial Office - In: Economies 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-1

The editors of <i>Economies</i> would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]

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