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producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise …
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Using a complete panel of Ghanaian cocoa producers' societies in the 1930s, we investigate whether group interaction problems threatened (i) capital accumulation, (ii) cocoa sales and (iii) cooperative survival as membership size increased.  We find evidence of group interaction problems.  The...
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randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana.  Our findings cast doubt on …
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This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but...
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changes in consumption in Ghana in the 1990s. It is argued that household consumption can act as an opportunity measure of … averages of welfare change are presented. In Ghana is has been argued that poverty fell based on a consumption measure of …. Doing this for Ghana over the period of the 1990s reveals that while on average per capita consumption rose across all …
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consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …
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This paper introduces a class of cointegration tests based on estimated low-pass and high-pass regression coefficients … cointegration in a n + k multivariate system with n cointegrating relationships without the need of either detrending nor … cointegration under the null without the need of special tables.  Small sample quantiles for these wavelet statistics are obtained …
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This paper examines a test for the null of cointegration in a multivariate system based on the discrepancy between the … offering a simple way of testing for cointegration under the null without the need of special tables.  Small sample critical … perform quite reasonably when compared to other tests of the null of cointegration. …
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During extreme hyper-inflations productivity tends to fall dramatically.  Yet, in models of money demand in hyper-inflation variables such as real income has been given a somewhat passive role, either assuming it exogenous or to have a negligible role.  In this paper we use an empirical...
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We consider the identification problem for the model of Lee and Carter (1992).  The parameters of this model are known only to be identified up to certain transformations.  Forecasts from the model may therefore depend on the arbitrarily chosen identification scheme.  A condition for...
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