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Malaria, Production and Income of the Producers of Coffee and Cocoa: an Analysis from Survey Data in Côte d'Ivoire. Malaria, coffee and cocoa production and income

Audibert, Martine; Brun, Jean-François; Mathonnat, Jacky; … - HAL - 2011

The sectors of coffee and cocoa represented in Côte d'Ivoire, before the political crisis, approximately 15% of the GDP …, first, to evaluate the role of malaria on coffee and cocoa productions, second, to assess if the behaviour of rural … households facing a liberalisation of the coffee and cocoa chains has an impact on their income. Three functions are thus …

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The fiscal theory of the price level puzzle: A non Ricardian view

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal - HAL - 2005

The fiscal theory of the price level says that the price level can be made determinate if the government uses fiscal policies such that government liabilities explode unless the price in the first period is at the "right" level. The policy implications are disturbing, as they call for rather...

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Does the fight against corruption require international cooperation?

Faure, Pierre-Henri - HAL - 2011

This paper explores the role of corruption in a two-country model with fiscal spillovers. In the absence of cooperation on governance issues, countries always have a strategic incentive to appoint policymakers whose aversion to corruption is lower than average. An international agreement is a...

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Indeterminacy under input-specific externalities and implications for fiscal policy

Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2006

In this paper, we introduce input-specific externalities in a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and a finance constraint (Woodford (1986)). In contrast to existing papers, average labor and capital have not a positive impact on the total productivity of factors, but...

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Stabilizing Fiscal Policies with Capital Market Imperfections

Dromel, Nicolas - HAL - 2009

We analyze how investment subsidies can affect aggregate volatility and growth in economies subject to capital market imperfections. Within a model featuring both frictions on the credit market and unequal access to investment opportunities among individuals, we provide specific fiscal...

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On policy interactions among nations : when do cooperation and commitment matter ?

Kempf, Hubert; Thadden, Leopold Von - HAL - 2008

This paper offers a framework to study commitment and cooperation issues in games with multiple policymakers. To reconcile some puzzles in the recent literature on the nature of policy interactions among nations, we prove that games characterized by different commitment and cooperation schemes...

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Public debt, the unit root hypothesis and structural breaks: a multi-country analysis

Uctum, Merih; Thurston, Thom; Uctum, Remzi - HAL - 2006

We assess fiscal performances in G7 and selected Latin American and Asian countries. We analyze two questions: (i) have public finances been sustainable? (ii) do countries follow more restrictive fiscal policies when debt starts to rise? We find that: (i) The traditional unit root tests often...

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New-Consensus Macroeconomic Governance in a Keynesian world, and the Keynesian alternative

Asensio, Angel - HAL - 2006

The paper presents both the New Consensus and Keynesian equilibrium within the usual fourcompetitive macro-markets structure. It gives theoretical explanations of the perniciouseffects that the NCM governance, which has been designed for ergodic stationary regimes,brings about in Keynesian...

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Monopolistic Competition and the Dependent Economy Model

Restout, Romain - HAL - 2008

This paper explores the consequences of introducing a monopolistic competition in an intertemporal two-sector small open economy model which produces traded and non traded goods. It is assumed that the non traded sector is the locus of the imperfectly competition. Our analysis shows that markup...

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Monetary and budgetary-fiscal policy interactions in a Keynesian heterogeneous monetary union

Asensio, Angel - HAL - 2006

The paper studies the effects of heterogeneity upon the monetary and fiscal-budgetary policy interactions in a Keynesian monetary union. As a result of interactions, some of our results contrast sharply with the ones in studies that consider separately monetary, fiscal and budgetary policies....

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