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<i>Economies</i>: An Open Access Journal for the Field of Development Macroeconomics

Fendel, Ralf - In: Economies 1 (2013) 1, pp. 3-5

development economics and macroeconomics. While the latter seems to be clearly defined, development economics is not, because it … well as microeconomics and public finance. Typically, academic field journals of development economics cover all those … economic sub-disciplines. <i>Economies</i> instead focuses mainly on the macroeconomic perspective of economic development and …

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Measuring Voting Power in Convex Policy Spaces

Kurz, Sascha - In: Economies 2 (2014) 1, pp. 45-77

Classical power index analysis considers the individual’s ability to influence the aggregated group decision by changing its own vote, where all decisions and votes are assumed to be binary. In many practical applications we have more options than either “yes” or “no”. Here we...

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Social Context and the Spread of HIV: An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Investigation on the Impacts of Social Stigma on Epidemic Outcomes

Ferguson, William D.; Nguyen, Trang Kieu - In: Economies 2 (2014) 3, pp. 171-192

We provide a theoretical foundation for analyzing how social stigma and adopted behavioral traits affect the transmission of HIV across a population. We combine an evolutionary game-theoretic model—based on a relationship signaling stage game—with the SIR (susceptible-infected-recovered)...

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Ecuador’s Economy Since 2007

Weisbrot, Mark; Johnston, Jake; Lefebvre, Stephan - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

This paper looks at Ecuador’s financial and regulatory reforms during the past five years, perhaps the most comprehensive of any country in the 21st century: taking control over the central bank, regulating capital outflows, taxing the financial sector, encouraging domestic investment and...

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Access to Media and HIV Knowledge in India

Agarwal, Smriti; Araujo, Pedro de - In: Economies 2 (2014) 2, pp. 124-146

This paper aims to better understand the relationship between HIV knowledge and media exposure in India. We use a two-stage hurdle model to estimate the effect of media sources such as newspapers, radios and television on AIDS-related knowledge among Indian men and women using demographic health...

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Changing fortunes: Long-termism - G-Zero, artificial intelligence and debt

Poloz, Stephen S. - 2019

monetary policy. Under a Taylor rule, monetary policy may allow growth to run as long as inflation remains subdued, easing the …

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Costa Rica During the Global Recession: Fiscal Stimulus with Tight Monetary Policy

Cordero, Jose Antonio - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

This paper shows that, in spite of a reasonably sized fiscal stimulus package, Costa Rica’s economy continues on a downward path, partly because fiscal policy is being offset by a tightening of monetary policy. The paper notes that the International Monetary Fund has insisted that Costa...

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Building a model for financial management of digital technologies in the areas of combinatorial effects

Zaytsev, Andrey A.; Blizkyi, Roman S.; Rakhmeeva, Irina I. - In: Economies 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-15

cyclical development of the economy. The paper presents the authors' definition of the concept "digital space," which is new to … agencies, foundations, corporations, and development agencies, as well as enterprises interested in accelerating digital …

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Alternatives to Fiscal Austerity in Spain

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

This paper looks at the planned austerity measures in Spain, the rationale for the spending cuts and tax increases, likely outcomes for future debt-to-GDP ratios, and the probable results of alternative policies.

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Update on the Venezuelan Economy

Weisbrot, Mark; Ray, Rebecca - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

went into recession in the first quarter of 2009 after six years of record economic growth, is now most likely in recovery …

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