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Housing, Household Portfolio, and Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Hasanov, Fuad - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates whether the inclusion of housing in a household portfolio is important to the household’s intertemporal decision making. Households hold portfolios of assets rather than a Treasury bill and/or a stock index and make their spending decisions based on expected total...

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The Rate of Interest or the Rate of Return: Estimating Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution

Dacy, Douglas; Hasanov, Fuad - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates whether the rate of interest such as the Treasury bill rate or the rate of return such as the return on a household portfolio is more relevant to the household’s intertemporal decision making. In a current era, households are diversifiers (to use Tobin’s 1958 term)...

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Pension Contributions as a Commitment device: evidence of sophistication among time-inconsistent households

Sourdin, Patricia - EconWPA - 2005

Sophisticated agents with self-control problems value commitment devices that constrain future choices. Using Australian household data, I test whether these households value commitment devices in the form of illiquid pension contributions. Applying various probabilistic choice models, the...

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IS INFLATION ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE A NON-MONETARY PHENOMENON: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA

David, KIHANGIRE Asiimwe; Albert, MUGYENYI - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of Uganda’s inflation rate during 1994M7-2005M6. We test the central hypothesis … that Uganda’s inflation rate is always and everywhere a non-monetary phenomenon. A theoretical background relating … results suggest insufficient evidence to accept the research hypothesis, as Uganda’s inflation rate is significantly …

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Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

contraddizioni che caratterizzano le politiche perseguite dalle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. Fino a poco tempo fa, l’Uganda … sociale dell’Uganda, che sta rapidamente perdendo la fiducia dei donatori e delle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. L … seconda parte approfondisce il caso specifico dell’Uganda, attraverso un’analisi del contesto sociale e istituzionale del …

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HAS EXCHANGE RATE VARIABILITY AFFECTED TROPICAL NON-TRADITIONAL

Kihangire, David; Potts, David; Cameron, Prof. Sam - EconWPA - 2005

This study examines the effects of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s flowers exports during 1994-2001 by testing … the central hypothesis that following the floating exchange rate regime, ‘Uganda’s exports of tropical flowers are … suggest that although Uganda’s flower exports are negatively correlated with exchange rate variability, the measured effects …

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EXCHANGE RATE MISALIGNMENT AND FINANCIAL LIBERALISATION: Exchange Rate Misalignment and Financial Liberalisation: Empirical Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications for Uganda, 1993...

Kihangire, David; Abuka, Charles - EconWPA - 2005

This study empirically investigates Uganda’s equilibrium real exchange rate (EREER) during 1993M1 to 2004M12. Using … ARDL approach to cointegration, we find that a long-run relationship exists between Uganda’s REER and its determinants …-run EREER model. Comparing the actual REER and the EREER reveals that Uganda’s REER is overvalued over the recent period, 2003 …

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Intrinsic Competition and the Labor-Schooling Trade-off in Uganda Competition in Child Labor and Schooling Decision Making in Uganda. Evidence from a Bivariate Probit Model

Ganglmair, Bernhard - EconWPA - 2005

empirical study, quite recent and hardly discussed data from Uganda is used for the joint estimation of child labor and school …

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Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

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THE EFFECTS OF EXCHANGE RATE VARIABILITY ON EXPORTS: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA (1988 – 2001)

Kihangire, David - EconWPA - 2005

Using monthly data, this study investigates the effects of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s aggregate export …-1993). The main research question it posits is: “What is the effect of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s exports?” Premised … on risk-aversion, the study tests the main hypothesis that ‘Uganda’s exports are negatively and significantly correlated …

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