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The notion that real money balances is a factor input has attracted considerable amount of attention from researchers … approach to investigate the validity of money in production function of a developing country for the period 1964-2008. The … cointegration results confirm money as an important factor input in the production function in the long run. The variance …
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This article develops an OLG model with random relocations of agents among more-than-two islands, wherein asymmetric liquidity shocks are observed. The model exhibits suboptimality of the Friedman rule. Furthermore, it is shown that there is no room for monetary policy to improve social welfare...
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This paper studies a strategic bargaining model of money and prices to complement the results reported in Coles and …
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This letter calls attention a recent trend in economics publishing that seems to have slipped under the radar: large increases in submissions rates across a wide range of economics journals and steeply declining acceptance rates as a consequence. It is argued that this is bad for scholarly...
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This paper attempts to examine empirically the dynamic relationship between inflation, growth and interest rate under … has a negative impact on both growth and the size of the informal activities, while inflation does not have a significant … effect on them. The influence of interest rate on growth and the size of the informal economy is found to be robust to VAR …
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We investigate factors of total factor productivity (TFP) interdependencies in a sample of 19 OECD countries for the period 1981-2009. Rolling cointegration relationships are estimated between TFP's level in order to measure productivity interdependencies across countries and over time. Besides...
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In this paper we examine the effects of the ratio of internal to external public debt on a country's economic growth …. These effects are examined through a competitive, decentralized model of endogenous economic growth, which relies on public … increases which in turn positively affects the long run economic growth rate. The main conclusion of this paper is that the out …
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This paper analyzes empirically the linkages between trade openness, economic growth, and the size of the informal … endogeneity problem. The results provide evidence that there is a positive bi-directional relationship between GDP growth and … trade openness. Second, fluctuations of GDP growth are explained by the size of the informal economy, while the impact of …
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This paper examines the export-led growth hypothesis in Tunisia and Morocco using a multivariate time-series framework … export promotion policies as part of their growth priorities. Since the eighties, both countries have integrated themselves … into the world economy and have continuously improved their growth prospects. As a result, they have experienced an …
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The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which crime affects the components of aggregate demand and vice versa for the case of Mexico, using quarterly data for the number of homicides and the components of aggregate demand for the period from 1990 to 2010. We estimated a Vector Error...
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