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How Do Economic Freedom and Investment Affect Economic Growth?
CHHENG, KIMLONG - EconWPA - 2005
This paper studies whether and how capital investment and economic freedom jointly endogenize economic growth. The … the crucial role of both domestic and foreign capital investment and economic freedom for rapid growth. Countries that … improve economic freedom and that bolster capital investment tend to experience faster growth. The domestic investment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125031
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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Benchmarking, Productivity and Investment Needs, paper presented at Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference, Durban, 9/7-9/200...
Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes - EconWPA - 2005
- income countries for the period 1980-2002 and then project investment needs in these sectors until 2010. Our projections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125863
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Growth, private investment and reforms : A comparative perspective
KAMEL, Ghazouani - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we empirically analyse the linkages among growth, investment and reforms in the South East Asian … capital and structural reforms for the growth prospects of the economies. These factors have shown a strong effect on growth … and have contributed greatly to the growth process for north Africa countries and the non CFA sub Sahara African countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556730
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Black Sea Area
Glinavos, Ioannis - EconWPA - 2005
investment performance of each state. The main focus is on the analysis of the legislation related to the promotion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118790
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The Sri Lankan Rupee and Purchasing Power Parity during the Current Floating Period
Wickremasinghe, Guneratne Banda - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the empirical validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis in a Sri Lankan context using exchange rates for six foreign currencies during the period January 1986 to November 2000. Both graphical and econometric methods are used in the analysis. Graphical analysis...
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Are Asian Real Exchange Rates Stationary?
Liew, Venus Khim-sen; Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; … - EconWPA - 2003
By applying the newly developed nonlinear stationary test advanced by Kapetanois et al. [Journal of Econometrics 112 (2003) 359 - 379] in examining the stationary property of 11 Asian real exchange rates, this paper rejects unit root in 8 US dollar based and 6 Japanese yen based rates, whereas...
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Bilaterial equilibrium exchange rates of EU accession countries against the euro
Rahn, Jörg - EconWPA - 2004
We apply BEER and PEER approaches to calculate real equilibrium exchange rates for five EU accession countries in central and east Europe. Bilateral nominal equilibrium exchange rates against the euro are obtained through algebraic transformation of the results. Panel cointegration techniques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126284
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Output Fluctuations in Latin America: What Explains the Recent Slowdown?
Herrera, Santiago; Perry, Guillermo; Quintero, Neile - EconWPA - 2000
The object of the paper is to explain Latin America’s growth slowdown experienced in 1998/99. To do so we used two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126407
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Real Exchange Rate Stationarity in Managed Floats: Evidence from India
Kohli, Renu - EconWPA - 2004
This paper tests the PPP hypothesis using improved unit root tests. 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...
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Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis in Developing Economies:Some Empirical Evidence from Sri Lanka
Wickremasinghe, Guneratne Banda - EconWPA - 2004
Purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis has attracted a lot of attention from academics and policy-makers particularly, during the recent float. Most previous studies used data from the developed world. This study examines the validity of the PPP hypothesis using data during the recent float...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408175