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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 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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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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Recently, Park (2009, Economic Theory 39, 377--398) extended the Barro endogenous growth model (1990) by assuming that … multiple balanced growth paths that exhibit zero growth rate and local indeterminacy. In this comment, it is shown that his … claim is incorrect. The model has a unique balanced growth path that may exhibit positive growth, and the model has no …
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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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This paper examines the growth and income distribution effects of inflation in a growing economy with heterogeneous … consumption spending, we show that a higher growth of monetary supply yields a negative impact on growth and an ambiguous effect …-run effects of money growth are rather small. In contrast, fiscal distortion caused by progressive taxation yield significant …
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It is often argued that the rapid growth of the services sector in India maybe notional rather than real. This is …
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This paper underlines the influence of trade diversification on GDP per capita growth. Using methodologies developed by … confirm that trade diversification has a positive effect on growth. However, this positive effect of diversification tends to … geographic diversification: to implement economic growth, developing countries should extend exports of new products rather than …
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The aim of this note is to investigate the relationship between economic growth and mandatory retirement in an … overlapping generations model where private investment in human capital is the engine of endogenous growth. We derive a novel … result in the retirement-growth literature by showing that the relationship between the mandatory retirement age and economic …
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