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Household Saving Behavior: The case of rural industry in Bantul

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - EconWPA - 2004

In generally rural industries self financed their activities. by their holder’s own capital. In the situation where other financial sources were limited, the own capital is very important for rural industries. The question is what are the sources of this capital? We are talking about household...

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Trading Population for Productivity

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - EconWPA - 2004

This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a significant role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a major determinant of the distribution of world population and a...

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From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004

This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology, and population over the course...

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Economics in a Family Way

Bergstrom, Theodore C. - EconWPA - 1995

This paper is an advertisement for some facts and ideas that I think likely to lead to a richer theory of the economics of the family. The discussion references many papers from anthropology and biology. Because of the intimate connection between the family and reproduction, it should not be...

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Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2005

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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

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Measuring China's Fiscal Policy Stance

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be …-cyclical in China over the past two decades. …

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China's Changing Competitive Position: Lessons from a Unit-Labor- Cost-Based REER

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It …

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China and Neo-liberal Constitutionalism

Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2004

This article discusses the probability of growth of neoliberalism in modern China and its implications for Chinese … constitutionalism. A China polity under the vision of a neo-liberal regime engenders problems of prescribing a legal system and … historicity of Western liberalism and China's ontological base in tradition, being Confucianism. The historic excesses and abuses …

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Optimal Monetary Policy Rules in A Simple Stochastic Macro Model: China's Evidence

Wang, Shengzu; Guo, Shen - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we apply a simple macro model to explore and evaluate certain optimal monetary policy rules for China …'s economy. To be more consistent with the central bank (the People's Bank of China)'s behaviour, we use money supply as a …

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