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consumption and investment expenditures, as well as their broadly defined components, are examined. We also test for effects of …
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The paper presents a structural model framework for a small open economy. The model, based on optimising households and firms, has been calibrated on Czech macroeconomic data in order to develop an analytic framework suitable for analysing key policy questions related to the Czech Republic’s...
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Monetary models of the business cycle often neglect the importance of investment and the capital stock in the monetary … transmission mechanism. Most of the recent literature assumes either investment adjustment costs or ignores capital altogether … firms face a planning period before undertaking investment expenditures. The resulting model is able to replicate some of …
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Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.
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New Keynesian models of the business cycle have become the new paradigm of monetary economics, often used for policy analysis. This paper shows that this class of models fail in one crucial respect: they imply a strong negative contemporaneous correlation between inflation and output....
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Some economists, who favoured free trade, had predicted that world prices would rise after UR agreement and with establishment of WTO, but the factual position is quite different. Since 1995, world whole sale prices of commodities are falling at the rate ranging 1 to 17%. Secondly Indian...
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The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its impact on child welfare. This article estimates the impact of AIDS-related adult mortality on primary school attendance in rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed...
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affect the time paths of consumption, savings, investment and output substantially. Secondly, when they are transmitted onto …
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We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...
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similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in developed countries. Well-being rises with income. Unemployment …
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