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Complementarity, Competition and Institutional Development: The Irish Loan Funds through Three Centuries
Hollis, Aidan; Sweetman, Arthur - EconWPA - 1997
system and were seen as an effective method of relieving poverty. In contrast, in their second hundred years, they became …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076565
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Microcredit in Pre-Famine Ireland
Hollis, Aidan; Sweetman, Arthur - EconWPA - 1997
intermediation by the banks seems not to have been possible. Created under special legislation, their goal was to relieve poverty by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408388
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Economic Growth and the Financial Economics of Capital Accumulation under Shifting Technological Change
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S; Newcomb, Richard T. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper develops a simple and practical framework for characterizing (long-run) economic growth and fluid capital accumulation under shifting technological change. The framework specifies a technological change that depends on exogenous and endogenous factors as well as the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408266
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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407655
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408428
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556956
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Paper Money but a Gold Debt. Italy in the Gold Standard
Tattara, Giuseppe; or consequences) - EconWPA - 2002
During the 52 years between the Unification of the Kingdom of Italy and World War 1, the lira was legally convertible into metal for a limited period of time. Although not formally committed to gold, the lira exchange towards the gold standard countries proved remarkably stable,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408387
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"Excess Volatility" and the German Stock Market, 1870-1990
Long, J. Bradford De; Becht, Marco - EconWPA - 1995
This paper uses long-run real price and dividends series to investigate for the German stock market the questions asked of the U.S. market by Shiller (1989). It tries to determine in what periods and to what degree the Germanstock market has also possessed "excess volatility" over the past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408396
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How the gold standard functioned in Portugal: an analysis of some macroeconomic aspects
Duarte, António Portugal; Andrade, João Sousa - EconWPA - 2005
This paper studies the Gold Standard in Portugal. It was the first country in Europe to join Great Britain in 1854. The principle of free gold convertibility was abandoned in 1891. For the purposes of a macroeconomic study, we also extended the analysis up to 1913. Our study points out the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412543
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A Corporate Governance Reform as a Natural Experiment for Incentive Contracts
Bayer, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - EconWPA - 2004
The present paper proposes to employ a major shift in the legal and institutional environment to identify contractual incentives from the correlation of executive pay and firm performance. We use the reform of the German stock companies act in 1884 as such a major shift and estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413146