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Zimbabwe had witnessed socio-economic challenges that resulted in mass exodus of its populace across its boarders mainly from the late 1990s. Migration can be individual or household strategy for survival and remittances play a role in transforming the household income. Making use of ordinary...
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the effect that later retirement ages have on aggregate household saving rates, both on a theoretical and empirical level … aggregate household saving rates. We show that it is likely that this corresponds to a decrease in household saving. In addition …
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retirement date is largely determined by the degree to which utility is additively separable in consumption and leisure. We show …-separable in consumption and leisure, and the cross-derivative of the utility function is negative, than when preferences are …In this paper we demonstrate that the magnitude of the reaction of saving behavior to a change in the anticipated …
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is consistent across all ten census years. This paper also provides support for earlier results that low investment rates …
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productivity and investment rates based on bivariate examinations of the data are ambiguous. The paper concludes by examining the … impact of concentration on employment and investment rates using a dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation methodology. We … find that increased concentration unambiguously lowers employment. For investment rates, increased inequality of market …
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This study empirically examines the pattern of domestic investment that is consistent with a neoclassical supply … level of financial development are significant determinants of domestic investment in Nigeria. The distinctive feature of … the study is the significant role played by governance in explaining the long-term pattern of domestic investment in …
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This paper analyses the relationship between financial stress indicator variables and monetary policy in South Africa with emphasis on how robust these variables are related to the monetary policy interest rate. The financial stress indicator variables comprise a set of variables from the main...
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The conventional view is that a monetary policy shock has both supply-side and demand-side effects, at least in the short run. Barth and Ramey (2001) show that the supply-side effect of a monetary policy shock may be greater than the demand-side effect. We argue that it is crucial for monetary...
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This paper studies the impacts of bank capital regulation on business cycle fluctuations. To do so, we adopt the … a positive monetary policy shock on business cycle fluctuations. We then look at the impacts of a negative shock to the …
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of lower interest rates on output can help restore the value of the currency due to increased money demand.. …
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