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more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …
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Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between "carve-out" pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe and typical "add-on" pension funding in Western Europe and North America. We find no evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and...
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As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...
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The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and … ultimately unsustainable. But largely unnoticed, a shift has taken place. This paper examines the changes in investment patterns … economy-wide data with various breakdown. Significant shifts in investment patterns across sectors and ownership forms have …
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it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … sustain a relatively high investment rate, and examines the arguments that have been offered for an impending drastic …
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We study the effects of time-using rent-seeking activities on the macroeconomic allocation and the economic growth rate. We formulate a highly stylized three-sector general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of individuals. The production side features one sector producing the...
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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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