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Does voter turnout affect policy outcomes? This long-standing question has been re-visited recently with close empirical scrutiny. These studies, however, commonly suffer from a problem of omitting variables correlated with both causal and outcome variables : specifically, immeasurable political...
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due to the price hikes in the early 1970s. We investigate the causal relations between real money and real income, between … nominal money and nominal income, and between nominal money and prices using the annual data set from 1959-60 to 2003 … money in the Pakistani economy, as it is found to be leading variables in changing prices without any feedback. In the case …
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The recent de-emphasizing of the role of money in both theoretical macroeconomics as well as in the practical conduct …, been accumulating, pointing to an important leading indicator role for money and credit aggregates with respect to long …. Our paper attempts to assess the informational content role of money in the Indian economy by a separation of these …
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The saving rate in Japan has declined rapidly. Analyzing the possible four factors that could affect the saving rate in general, compared with theoretical implications, the data suggest that all elements might have a negative impact on the saving rate during the late 90s and early 00s. Such a...
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This paper operationalizes Dahlby's (1998) theoretical analysis on the social marginal cost of public funds (SMCF) with microdata on Japanese prime-age males. Our exercise, however, is more than an application. First, we derive the formula for the SMCF that differentiates every individual....
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agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of … consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. …
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The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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employment rate. Our illustrative application to China shows that gradually increasing the current low minimum age of retirement …
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In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
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The rise of China has major repercussions for a country such as Bangladesh which has emerged as an important player in … more than one player. Evidently, impact and implications of competition from China will have to be examined and scrutinized …
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