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's (1992) conditional ECM- based t-test for no-cointegration with a single prespecified cointegrating vector. This alternative …-test with a prespecified cointegrating vector can have much higher power than single equation tests for cointegration based on …
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empirical analysis, we conducted unit root and cointegration test in order to determine the time series properties of the data … in both Malawi and South Africa. Keywords: real effective exchange rate, cointegration; error correction model …
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From 1974 through 1997 the Galapagos experienced very rapid population growth, around six per cent per year. Sustained at this level, the population would continue to double every 12 years. Increased population brings an increased risk of invasive introduced species, which endangers the fragile...
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This study estimates parameters necessary to calculate the optimal second-best gasoline tax, most notably the cross-price elasticity between gasoline and leisure. Prior work indicates that in a second-best setting with distortionary income taxes, both the cost of environmental regulation and the...
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Lack of knowledge about differential AIDS mortality seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in … educated people have a higher risk of dying of AIDS, because they are more likely to have several sexual partners. This effect … the socio-economic characteristics of low and high risk groups seems indispensable to set up adequate AIDS prevention and …
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We develop a demo-economic micro-simulation model able to simulate over a fifteen years period the impact of AIDS on … household and individual incomes. When focusing on the labor supply effects of over- mortality, the main effect of AIDS in Cˆote … conclusions do not seem to depend on the degree of heterogeneity and clustering of the HIV/AIDS-infections over the population. …
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GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...
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Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...
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As of January 1, 2005, all developing country members of the WTO are required to implement the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We analyze the issue of access to patented medicine to treat global and neglected diseases in developing countries in the context of...
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the owners in the management. Family firm is the most common form of business in Greece. Hence, the governance structures … explore the main aspects of CG of family-owned listed companies in Greece. For this purpose, we apply a specific CG rating … on the current state of corporate governance in Greece. Each firm is rated among the 120 total number of companies (both …
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