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Ageing and the relative price of nontradeables

Bettendorf, Leon; Dewachter, Hans - 2007

In this paper we identify the effects of ageing on the relative price of nontradeables versus tradeables. We consider two cases. In a first specification, age effects only account for short-run dynamics. An alternative case allows for permanent age effects. Estimating the respective cases by...

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Population ageing and pension reform in a small open economy with non-traded goods

Bettendorf, Leon; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2004

In this paper we study the implications of population ageing in an economy with a sizeable non-traded goods sector. To this effect a highly stylized micro-founded macro model is constructed in which the age structure of the population plays a non-trivial role. The model distinguishes separate...

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Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Manchin, Miriam - 2005

Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate intoworsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization.We examine the actual scope for preference erosion,...

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Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Manchin, Miriam - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003073168

Ageing and the relative price of nontradeables

Bettendorf, Leon; Dewachter, Hans - 2007

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A Bayesian analysis of unobserved component models using Ox

Bos, Charles S. - 2011

Estimation of the volatility of time series has taken off since the introduction of the GARCH and stochastic volatility … unobserved stochastic volatility, and the varying approaches that have been taken for such estimation.In order to simplify the … comprehension of these estimation methods, the main methods for estimating stochastic volatility are discussed, with focus on their …

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Social (in)stability, distributive conflicts, and investment in poor and rich economies

Riedl, Arno - 1999 - This version: September, 1999

theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between …

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Informal sector in developed and less developed countries : a literature survey

Gërxhani, Klarita - 1999

The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of thecontributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the PublicChoice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionallydifferent types of countries: developed and...

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Dumping in developing and transition economies

Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004

We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economieshave increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentivesof oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumpingmay be due to...

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The causal links between aid and government expenditures

Marć, Łukasz - 2014

The most recent literature on aid effectiveness finds a positive effect of aid on growth. To the extent that aid goes through the budget, this either reflects an aid-financed increase in government expenditures (quantity effect) or an improvement in the use of government resources as a result of...

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