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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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this aspect, however, are inconclusive. Based on the average growth rate for the last two decades, we select 12 top … positive and significant impact of openness on economic growth. The system GMM technique is used to overcome the shortcomings … of endogeneity as found in most previous studies. While growth in labor force has insignificant effect on output growth …
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the models to inflation and output growth variables and found that the effects of real and nominal uncertainties are …
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I measure the welfare gains from eliminating fluctuations in investment in an emerging economy such as Argentina. The estimated welfare effects are an order of magnitude higher than those for the US and arise with moderate degrees of diminishing returns to investment.
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growth in West Africa. Our sample contains twelve ECOWAS member countries (Economic Community of West African States) and we … results show that:(1) finance leads economic growth in countries which have the common currency, (2) the reverse causation … dominates in the other countries, (3) there is greater feedback between financial development and economic growth in countries …
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