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The rural non-farm economy and poverty alleviation in Armenia, Georgia and Romania: A synthesis of findings.
Davis, Junior; Bezemer, Dirk; Janowski, Monica; … - EconWPA - 2005
The aims of this study are to improve understanding of the dynamics of the rural non-farm economy in providing employment and income diversification opportunities in Armenia, Georgia and Romania. The study aims to focus on improving the well-being and livelihoods of the rural population, through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556073
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Trade Policies in Central Asia after EU Enlargement and before Russian WTO accession: Regionalism and Integration into the world economy.
Pomfret, Richard - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyses the choices between regionalism and multilateralism, and the impact of WTO membership on the five Central Asian countries. The two main sections analyse (1) why the large number of regional trade agreements which the Central Asian countries have signed have had little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556162
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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005
Reference: Challenge, January/February, 1979
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125870
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Preventing competition because of “solidarity”: Rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain
Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005
Spain is the only large European country in which airport management is strictly centralized and publicly owned. This peculiar institutional setting prevents competition among Spanish airports, and policy makers and bureaucrats in charge of the system regularly justify it on grounds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125961
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Equity Returns and Inflation: The Puzzlingly Long Lags
Lothian, James R.; McCarthy, Cornelia H.. - EconWPA - 2001
equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124935
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CLAVES DE LA INFLACION DE 2005
Marongiu, Federico - EconWPA - 2005
El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076625
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Nominal Convergence in the CEECs
Järvinen, Marketta - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines, in the context of future EMU membership of the Central and Eastern European countiries (CEECs), the interaction between fiscal policy and the price level in different exchange rate regimes. The theoretical framework is based on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076688
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076716
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INFLATION AND PRICE DISPERSION IN EQUITY MARKETS AND IN GOODS AND SERVICES MARKETS
Popper, David Parsley Helen - EconWPA - 2002
An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076784
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Who Controls the Price Level?
Erdogdu, Oya S. - EconWPA - 2003
Under the guidance of different theories and the problem of dominance and activeness, this study gives a survey of the rapidly growing literature on Fiscal Theory of Price Level, which opens up new horizons in a non–Ricardian world and questions the effectiveness of monetary policy on price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076798