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A Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa
Brown, Caitlin - 2016
Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...
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Factor Shares and Savings in Endogenous Growth
Bertola, Giuseppe - 1991
This paper studies the distributive effects of growth when different agents' income is drawn from accumulated and non-accumulated factors of production in different proportions, notes that political interactions may contribute to determine factor shares and growth when income sources are...
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Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance : An Analytical Framework
Heathcote, Jonathan - 2009
This paper studies consumption and labor supply in a model where agents have partial insurance and face risk and initial heterogeneity in wages and preferences. Equilibrium allocations and variances and covariances of wages, hours and consumption are solved for analytically. We prove that all...
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Explaining Import Variety and Quality : The Role of the Income Distribution
Choi, Yo Chul - 2006
We examine a generalized version of Flam and Helpman’s (1987) model of vertical differentiation that maps cross-country differences in income distributions to variations in import variety and price distributions. The theoretical predictions are examined and confirmed using micro data on...
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Equilibrium Bias of Technology
Acemoglu, Daron - 2005
The study of the bias of new technologies is important both as part of the analysis of the nature of technology adoption and the direction of technological change, and to understand the distributional implications of new technologies. In this paper, I analyze the equilibrium bias of technology....
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Does Stabilizing Inflation Contribute To Stabilizing Economic Activity?
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2008
This paper discusses recent economic research that demonstrates that the objectives of price stability and stabilizing economic activity are often likely to be mutually reinforcing. Thus, the answer to the title of this paper--"Does stabilizing inflation contribute to stabilizing economic...
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Monetary policy rules
Taylor, John B. (ed.) - 1999
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Monetary policy rules : [papers based on the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research in Business Cycles, held at Stanford University, 1998]
Taylor, John B. (ed.) - 2001 - Paperback ed.
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Time-to-build and cycles
Asea, Patrick K.; Zak, Paul J. - 1997
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Growth Economics and Reality
Brock, William A. - 2000
the perspective of economic theory as well as from the perspective of the historical experiences of the countries under … model specification. Model uncertainty consists of two types: theory uncertainty, which relates to which growth determinants … draws from the same statistical model. We propose ways to account for both theory and heterogeneity uncertainty. Finally …
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