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“The Consumer Financing Business in India” – Building Blocks for the Future
Gupta, Akash; Agarwal, Rahul - EconWPA - 2004
In view of this changing landscape, we look at the three major drivers of growth in consumer finance: auto finance, housing finance and consumer durable finance. We discuss the trends in each of these areas as well as the shortcomings which are slowing down growth. We present some of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561323
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Learning by Doing as a Propagation Mechanism
Chang, Yongsung; Gomes, Joao; Schorfheide, Frank - EconWPA - 2002
This paper suggests that skill accumulation through past work experience, or ``learning-by-doing'' (LBD), can provide an important propagation mechanism in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, as the current labor supply affects future productivity. Our econometric analysis uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076683
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An estimated new Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the Euro area
Ratto M.; Roeger W.; in’t Veld J.; Girardi R. - EconWPA - 2005
In recent years a new consensus has emerged in macroeconomics in general and in model building in particular, the so called New Keynesian Paradigm (NKM). This paper applies Bayesian estimation techniques to a time series data set of the euro area and presents estimates of a DSGE model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561357
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The Impact of an Old Fleet on the Demand for Air Transportation: The Case of VASP Brazilian Airlines
Pinto, Bruno José Marques - EconWPA - 2005
-80s. This paper aims to study if an old fleet could affect the demand for air transportation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076880
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School Characteristics and the Demand for College
Bezmen, Trisha; II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996
We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable … characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125047
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Cash and the Counter: Capabilities and Preferences in the Demand for Banking Technologies
Consoli, Davide - EconWPA - 2005
The main argument of this paper is that consumption and demand, like production, are discovery processes guided by … retail payment services in the United Kingdom to appreciate how consumption and demand can be shaped by the intertwined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134450
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Battery eggs sale and production in the ACT
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
On 31 July 1998 the Commission received a request from the Treasurer to undertake, on behalf of the Government of the Australian Capital Territory, a study into whether it is in the public interest for the ACT to: . ban the sale of eggs from battery caged hens in the ACT (whether produced in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407762
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The Oil Supply and Demand Context for Security of Oil Supply to the EU from the GCC Countries
Skinner, Robert; Arnott, Robert - EconWPA - 2005
outside OPEC and the Middle East, while China, India and North America will continue to determine oil demand. The political … demand; namely, Russia’s oil supply falters while China’s demand soars, versus Russia’s oil supply soars while China’s demand …
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Econometric Model for Cement demand and supply in Bolivia
Mattos, Melitón Ramirez - EconWPA - 2005
This document introduce the obtained results of the econometric estimation of cement demand and supply in Bolivia … considered as a simultaneous equations model, based on two equations, one for the demand and another for the supply. The … cement demand and supply to be able to explain the coefficients associated to the variables in form of elasticities. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408000
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Microsimulating the Effects of Household Energy Price Changes in Spain
Labandeira, Xavier; Labeaga, Jose M.; Rodriguez, Miguel - EconWPA - 2004
Spanish energy domain. The model rests on our prior estimation of a demand system which is especially designed for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560966