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This paper examines the relevance of the monetary approach for exchange rate behaviour in India, unde rthe managed float regime. It finds supprot for purchaisng power parity in traded goods and that the monetary approach provdies a reasonable description of exchange rate behaviour in the period...
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This paper tests for mean-reversion in real exchange rates for India during the recent (managed) float period yield evidence of mean- reversion in the real exchange rate series constructed with the consumer price index as deflator as well as for a series constructed using the ratio of wholesale...
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This paper employs new estimates of US currency held abroad to determine the degree of unofficial or de facto dollarization that has taken place in key countries around the world. Empirical estimates of foreign currency in circulation permits refined definitions of unofficial dollarization...
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talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …
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It is difficult, even in 2005, to write the peaceful history of the French Institute of Chartered Accountants. Almost everywhere, it is written that it was founded in 1945. It would be more accurate to say that it was re-constituted in 1945. It was actually created in 1942 and its origins are...
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the past two decades, the return to college education has increased relative to high school education leading economists … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative … relationship between education spending and savings rates across OECD countries. In this paper, we present a model where a …
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This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
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not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …
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the frequently obtained conclusion that investments in higher education are too low are doubtful. The tests also show the … importance of further education and training, especially on-the-job training. …
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We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out-of-state tuition but inversely related to in- state...
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