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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions
Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002
This study compares transition processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the importance of a strong state with evolved institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076830
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125845
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Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K.; Yu, Bingxin - EconWPA - 2005
Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi-nonparametric Fourier production frontier. Over the four decades the estimated rate of productivity change was 0.83% per year, although the average rate from 1985-99 was a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407719
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Uncertainty, Trade, and Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cuddington, John T.; Liang, Hong; Lu, Shihua - EconWPA - 1996
In most African economies, both agricultural production and the terms- of-trade are highly uncertain. This paper re-examines the implications of such uncertainty for the optimal mix of production and trade under alternative assumptions about international capital flows. The ultimate objective is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556608
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Equity Returns and Inflation: The Puzzlingly Long Lags
Lothian, James R.; McCarthy, Cornelia H.. - EconWPA - 2001
equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124935
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CLAVES DE LA INFLACION DE 2005
Marongiu, Federico - EconWPA - 2005
El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076625
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Nominal Convergence in the CEECs
Järvinen, Marketta - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines, in the context of future EMU membership of the Central and Eastern European countiries (CEECs), the interaction between fiscal policy and the price level in different exchange rate regimes. The theoretical framework is based on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076688
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076716
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INFLATION AND PRICE DISPERSION IN EQUITY MARKETS AND IN GOODS AND SERVICES MARKETS
Popper, David Parsley Helen - EconWPA - 2002
An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076784
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Who Controls the Price Level?
Erdogdu, Oya S. - EconWPA - 2003
Under the guidance of different theories and the problem of dominance and activeness, this study gives a survey of the rapidly growing literature on Fiscal Theory of Price Level, which opens up new horizons in a non–Ricardian world and questions the effectiveness of monetary policy on price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076798