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Migration, international trade and capital formation : cause or effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2012
the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663906
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Optimal taxation with capital accumulation and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001876718
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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving
Richter, Wolfram F. (contributor) - 2008
human and nonhuman capital investment ; power law of learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688797
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A pragmatic approach to capital account liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor);  … - 2008
developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic savings is not the primary constraint on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003697367
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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … sharing, and certainly nowhere near the levels predicted by theory. In addition, only industrial countries have attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586563
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Equipping immigrants : migration flows and capital movements
Lange, Fabian (contributor); Gollin, Douglas (contributor) - 2007
Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003583929
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Income inequality and saving
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Attar, Mayssun el - 2012
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681548
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824853
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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900319
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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a …
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