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Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s

Parham, Dean; Barnes, Paula; Roberts, Paul; Kennett, Sharon - EconWPA - 2001

„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster...

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GUTS IN THE EDGE OF WEALTH: An inquiry to human creativeness

Situngkir, Hokky; Suroso, Rendra - EconWPA - 2004

Creativeness has been a hot topic of human intelligence system underlying innovations, discoveries, and many novelties brought to the enrichment of human civilization. Unfortunately, present cognitive theories relatively separated from speculative philosophical debates only to show the very...

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Estimating and testing preferences for consumption, work hours and savings using the PSID, the profit function and the true dynamic budget constraint

Chin, William - EconWPA - 2003

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …

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Estimating and testing intertemporal preferences: A unified framework for consumption, work and savings

Chin, William - EconWPA - 2004

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …

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Heterogeneous Time-Preference and the Distribution of Wealth

Andolfatto, David; Redekop, James - EconWPA - 2003

distribution of agents' discount parameters. Degenerate wealth distributions, in which only the most patient agents have any wealth …, are avoided by having a fraction of the agents die each period, and bequeath their wealth to descendants with … agents' stocks of wealth depend on their inherited wealth. If a patient individual lives long enough, she will retire and …

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Parental Wealth Effects on Living Standards and Asset Holdings: Results from Chile

Torche, Florencia; Spilerman, Seymour - EconWPA - 2005

influenced indirectly, through parental investments in education and earnings capacity, whereas the wealth holdings of families …

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The Evolution of Wealth Inequality in Canada, 1984-1999

Morissette, Rene; Zhang, Xuelin; Drolet, Marie - EconWPA - 2004

evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) Wealth inequality has … increased between 1984 and 1999; 2) the growth in wealth inequality has been associated with substantial declines in real … average and median wealth for recent immigrants and young couples with children; 3) real median wealth and real average wealth …

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The Philippine Central Bank's Monetary Policy Reaction Function from 1992 to 2003

Salas, John Michael Ian S. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper attempts to provide an empirical determination of the Philippine central bank's (BSP) recent monetary policy stance, before and after its adoption of the inflation targeting framework, as revealed by its interest rate setting behavior. Employing Clarida, Gali, and Gertler's (1998,...

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Price Adjustments and Asymmetry in the Philippine Retail Gasoline Market

Salas, John Michael Ian S. - EconWPA - 2002

This paper employs ordered probit, partial adjustment, and vector error correction models to characterize price adjustments in the Philippine retail gasoline market since its deregulation. It finds that pricing decisions of oil firms depend significantly on eight weeks of previous changes in...

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