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of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy ranks investment in human capital higher than investment in nonhuman …
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We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and on the macroeconomic growth rate in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We model imperfect annuities by introducing a load factor on the interest rate...
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view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …
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results suggest that the correlation between investment and savings depends on institutions, exchange rate risk and credit …
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The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the … substitute real investment by financial investment. When interest rates are expected to fall in the long term, the marginal and …
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negative impact of outward direct investment on IR accumulation is consistent with the recent trend of diverting international … direct investment and IR in the pre- and post-crisis period. The macro-prudential policy tends to complement IR accumulation …
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The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the … investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits … accrue and the riskiness of the investment. In this paper, we estimate the term structure of discount rates for an important …
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investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …
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China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … investment is small, though growing rapidly. China's attraction to resource-rich countries is no different from Western …
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higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …
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