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Distributed Lag Models and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cameroon
Fouda, Boniface Bounoung - HAL - 2010
This paper studies the intertemporal effects of various economic variables on the cameroonian growth. Using a Geometric Lag Model, we find out that 50% of the total effect of variables used is accomplished in less than half of a year. When we employ a Polynomial Distributed Lag, we find out that...
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Assessing the Effect of Foster-Children Supply on Biological Children Education Demand : Some Evidence from Cameroon
Marazyan, Karine - HAL - 2009
Cameroon. To address the endogeneity of foster-children supply, we estimate both decision within a recursive bivariate probit … in Cameroon, kinship rules involve children to be hosted by brothers of the male kin group, and more likely by the eldest …. Using data from the demographic and health survey of Cameroon (2004), a dataset uniquely suitable for our purpose since …
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Institutional Evolution, static and dynamic approaches in assessing performance related to development goals
Fok, Michel; Tazi, Sophia - HAL - 2003
1. The Resocot Projet is a research project which brought together teams of researchers from the North and Africa, not all of which were familiar with the theoretical approach used at the outset. This project aims at developing a methodology and materials to help assess the performance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793818
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Business Cycles Synchronization in East Asia: A Markov-Switching Approach
Dufrénot, Gilles; Keddad, Benjamin - HAL - 2013
This paper attempts to analyze the relationships between the ASEAN-5 countries' business cycles. We examine the nature of business cycles correlation trying to disentangle between regional spillover effects (expansion and recession phases among the ASEAN-5 are correlated) and global spillovers...
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South East Asian Monetary Integration: New Evidences from Fractional Cointegration of Real Exchange Rates
Truchis, Gilles De; Keddad, Benjamin - HAL - 2012
We study the long-run relationship of real exchanges rates (RERs) among the ASEAN-5 countries by testing the theory of Generalized Purchasing Power Parity (G-PPP) from the new perspective of fractional cointegration. The long-run co-movements of the RERs are examined by applying a recent...
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Symmetry of External Shock responses within the Andean Community of Nations : A SVAR Approach
Bonilla, Andrea - HAL - 2012
This article studies the symmetry in reactions of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) economies to external shocks in order to analyze the group's evolution towards economic integration. The undertaking of a Monetary Union project in South America enhances the usefulness of evaluating shocks...
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Regional Debt in Monetary Unions: Is it Inflationary ?
Cooper, Russell; Kempf, Hubert; Peled, Dan - HAL - 2008
This paper studies the inflationary implications of interest bearing regional debt in a monetary union. Is this debt simply backed by future taxation with non inflationary consequences ? Or will the circulation of region debt induce monetization by a central bank ? We argue here that both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738623
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Insulation Impossible : Fiscal Spillovers in a Monetary Union
Cooper, Russell; Kempf, Hubert; Peled, Dan - HAL - 2010
This paper studies the effects of monetary policy rules in a fiscal federation, such as the European Union. The focus of the analysis is the interaction between the fiscal policy of member countries (regions) and the monetary authority. Each of the countries structures its fiscal policy...
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Exchange Rate Misalignments, Fiscal Federalism and Redistribution: How to Adjust in a Monetary Union
Duwicquet, Vincent; Mazier, Jacques; Saadaoui, Jamel - HAL - 2012
strongly overvalued for Southern European countries, France included, and largely undervalued for Northern European countries …
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Fear of a two-speed monetary union: what does a basic correlation scatter plot tell us?
Pentecôte, Jean-Sébastien - HAL - 2013
I extend the Bayoumi-Eichengreen (1993) approach by extracting new information from a scatter plot of correlation coefficients between shocks in order to better visualize how far a given country is from a monetary union. Indexes of distance and relative strength can be derived from either a...
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