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Computing Effective Tax Rates on Factor Incomes and Consumption: An International Macroeconomic Perspective
Mendoza, Enrique G; Razin, Assaf; Tesar, Linda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
savings, investment, and labour supply in neoclassical models, and to the rate of unemployment in job search models. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124394
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Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?
Anagol, Santosh; Etang, Alvin; Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market wages, households earn large, negative average returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at negative 64% and negative 39% respectively. This puzzle is mostly explained if we value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083843
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Back to Keynes?
van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
After a brief review of classical, Keynesian, New Classical and New Keynesian theories of macroeconomic policy, we assess whether New Keynesian Economics captures the quintessential features stressed by JM Keynes. Particular attention is paid to Keynesian features omitted in New Keynesian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504355
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James; Karlan, Dean S.; Pradhan, Menno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked … money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group …, mostly because children moved savings from home to school. We observed few other impacts. We do find that financial education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249377
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The Crisis of Germany's Pension Insurance System and How It Can Be Resolved
Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
crisis. The paper recommends obligatory private savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791248
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Current Account Sustainability: Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria; Razin, Assaf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
A number of developing countries have run large and persistent current account deficits in both the late-1970s/early-1980s and in the early-1990s, raising the issue of whether these persistent imbalances are sustainable. This paper puts forward a notion of current account sustainability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791270
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Unemployment and Consumption: Are Job Losses Less Painful near the Mediterranean?
Bentolila, Samuel; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel data on households in five countries: Spain and Italy (the South), and Germany, Britain, and the US (the North). Our empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791504
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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean S.; Yin, Wesley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to an individually-held commitment savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792103
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558595
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Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving
Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret; Mullainathan, Sendhil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
expenditure. We find support for these predictions in three field experiments that randomly assign reminders to new savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550318