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factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to … for both growth and inequality. Calibrated TFP growth is consistent with the results from nonparametric growth accounting … more problems to modelling inequality than with growth: in particular, the main models in the literature, which take skill …
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In this paper we adopt both a nonparametric and a semi-parametric IV estimator to show that the relationship between … inflation and output growth is non-linear and that there exists a threshold level below which inflation has no effects on growth. …
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This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …
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inequality, and find that the regions that had the highest increase in international migration are also the regions where the … diffusion hypothesis. A fixed effects analysis of the effects of migration and remittances on in inequality at the village level …, however, fails to support this hypothesis, indicating that most changes in inequality have occurred within rather than between …
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Over the past 15 years there has been remarkable progress in the specification and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Central banks in developed and emerging market economies have become increasingly interested in their usefulness for policy analysis and...
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This paper proposes an approach for estimating the uncertainty associated with model-based macroeconomic forecasts. We argue that estimated forecast intervals should account for the uncertainty arising from selecting the specification of an empirical forecasting model from the sample data. To...
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Sustainable intensification of Ghana’s smallholder farming is critical to mitigate rural poverty. Innovations for sustainable intensification include agro-ecological practices, which build up soil fertility, and mulching, which conserves soil moisture. To stimulate the adoption of these...
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systematically overestimate output growth (across all countries) masks considerable differences across different business … overestimate growth), while forecasts for recoveries are subject to a positive systematic forecast error. Forecasts made for … relationship between a change in trend growth rates and forecast bias, as suggested in the literature, breaks down when only …
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We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face...
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We suggest a new way to quantify the growth effects of capital mobility. We find that for reasonable parameter values …, capital mobility has a large impact on income growth. …
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