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CAPITAL ACCUMULATION HAS BEEN EMPHASISED AS THE MAJOR FACTOR GOVERING THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT. THIS STUDY THEREFORE AIMS EXPLORING IN THE LIGHT OF PAST TRENDS, THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS AS FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN...
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The purpose of our paper is to derive instructive analytics on how to account for differentials in demographic variables, in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time. The idea is to apply various ways of `correcting' estimated income distribution measures for `sample...
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option. Turning to adaptation, my point is that the criterion of responsibility based on historical accountability is …
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If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting question.
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In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...
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We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed … immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence as estimated in regression to the mean models is about the same for … immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …
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J.M. Keynes and F.A. Hayek had different economic ideas even though both were subjectivists seriously engaged with issues of time and uncertainty in economics. The source of the difference between their economic ideas was the difference between their philosophical ideas. Keynes was a Cartesian...
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adaptive expectations and partial adjustment mechanisms. The paper demonstrates the difficulty of interpreting distributed lag …
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achieve robustness against incomplete information about the structure of the economy by distorting their expectations in a … particular direction. It shows how a linear rational expectations equilibrium under concern for robustness can be solved by … responses of private consumption to government expenditure shocks under robust expectations. …
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the euro area: the older expectations-augmented Phillips curve and the new Keynesian Phillips curve. The main focus is on … the role of expectations and comparison of the two theories. Instead of imposing rational expectations, an alternative and … in principle less restrictive approach is applied to operationalising expectations. Direct measures of inflation …
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