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This paper presents an endogenous growth model with intertemporally dependent preferences and "Ak" technology. We … derive sufficient conditions for a balanced growth path to be an equilibrium, provide a full characterization of the … equilibrium dynamics of the economy, and explore the implications of habit formation for the patterns of cross-country growth and …
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We evaluate the macroeconomic effects of shocks specific to the oil market, which mainly reflect fluctuations in precautionary demand for oil driven by uncertainty about future supplies. A two-stage identification procedure is used. First, daily changes in the futures-spot spread proxy for...
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time. To this end we propose a general equilibrium model that delivers two structural relations. On the one hand, the … vested interests across sectors determines public policy decisions. The model predicts that different initial sectoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105139
This paper presents an endogenous growth models with intertemporally dependent preferences and "Ak" technology. We … derive sufficient conditions for a balanced growth path to be an equilibrium, provide a full characterization of the … equilibrium dynamics of the economy, and explore the implications of habit formation for the patterns of cross-country growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780679
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects on the U.S. economy of news about oil supply by estimating a VAR. Information contained in daily quotations of oil futures contracts is exploited to estimate the dynamic path of oil prices following a shock. Hence, differently from the VAR literature...
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By allowing median voter�s location and preferred policy to change over time, a variety of redistributive policies results in the long-run with no unique relationship to inequality. Single outcome depends on the interaction between the pure economic structure and policy action in...
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that links the growth of capital stock to value added for both the euro-area countries and the Anglo-Saxon countries. This …
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We examine the growth performance of six emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and Turkey) in the … last two decades and examine whether domestic structural constraints are affecting their present and future growth … structural factors will weigh on potential growth, particularly the evolution of the size and quality of the labor force. …
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growth performance directly or indirectly through the above exogenous shocks. The focus, mostly but not exclusively … economic growth. …
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This paper studies the correlation between inequality, measured by the Gini coefficent of incomes, and the growth rate … of per capita GDP in a panel of countries between the late 1950s and late 1990s. Inequality Granger causes growth with a … negative coefficient, while growth Granger causes inequality with a positive sign. Quantitatively, the former effect appears …
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