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Cross-racial envy and underinvestment in South Africa
Haile, Daniel (contributor); Sadrieh, Abdolkarim (contributor) - 2006
Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa. The amount of socio-economic information available to the subjects about their counterparts is varied. No significant behavioural differences are observed, when no such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301019
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Tax incentives and business investment : evidence from German bonus depreciation
Eichfelder, Sebastian; Schneider, Kerstin - 2014
business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354738
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Effects of tax depreciation rules on firms' investment decisions in an inflationary phase : comparison of net present values in selected OECD countries
Nam, Chang-woon - 2001
. Therefore, in periods with inflation generous tax depreciation provisions do not adequately promote private investment as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399561
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The role of tax depreciation for investment decisions : a comparison of European transition countries
Nam, Chang-woon; Radulescu, Doina - 2003
. Therefore, in an inflationary period generous tax depreciation provisions do not promote private investment as designed, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514138
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Temporary super depreciation allowances for green and digital investments
Funke, Michael; Terasa, Raphael - 2022
As an incentive to increase high-impact investment and boost growth, the German Federal Government is planning to … end after two years, there is a risk that business investment could tail off at a crucial time, when post-COVID-19 …
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The impact of monetary and commodity fundamentals, macro news and central bank communication on the exchange rate : evidence from South Africa
Égert, Balázs - 2009
This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831962
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Remittances, banking status and the usage of insurance schemes
Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Ströh de Martínez, … - 2010
Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a unique data set on the usage patterns of financial services...
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Nominal and real exchange rate models in South Africa : how robust are they?
Égert, Balázs - 2012
This paper addresses difficulties in modelling exchange rates in South Africa. Real exchange rate models of earlier research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation methods. Alternative exchange rate models proposed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570595
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822103