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Effects of US inflation on Hong Kong and Singapore

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Yuen, Jude - 2002

this paper, we examine how inflation rates in two small open economies, namely Hong Kong and Singapore, interact with those … model is used to study the inflation dynamics. It is found that Hong Kong and Singapore inflation rates, but not the U ….S. one, respond to the error correction term. Compared with Singapore, the Hong Kong inflation rate is more responsive to U …

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Pro-poor price trends and inequality : the case of India

Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders - 2016

It is well known that people’s consumption patterns change with income. Relative price changes therefore affect rich and poor consumers differently. Yet, the standard price indices are not income-specific and hence, the use of these mask these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we...

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Ageing and fiscal imbalances across generations : concepts of measurement

Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003

In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...

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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States

Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

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Measuring the competitiveness of elections

Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018

The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...

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Aggregate multi-factor productivity : measurement issues in OECD countries

Égert, Balázs - 2018

This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity (MFP) is sensitive to alternative parameterisations. The starting point is the definition of MFP used in previous work in the OECD's Economics Department (e.g. Johansson et al....

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Measuring social preferences in developing economies

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Leveley, Ian - 2023

For the past two decades, studies measuring social preferences in developing settings have played an important role in building our understanding of economic development and poverty. This book chapter reviews lab-in-the-field experiments that measure social preferences, summarizes categories of...

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A tale of two debt crises : a stochastic optimal control analysis

Stein, Jerome L. (contributor) - 2008

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Long memory in US real output per capita

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009

This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 - 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...

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