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On bank consolidation in a currency union
Di Vittorio, Fabio; Li, Delong; Yun, Hanlei - 2018
The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852546
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Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare
Matovu, John - 2000
This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399948
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Mortgage Market Development, Savings, and Growth
Li, Xiaowei - 2001
Jappelli and Pagano (1994) argues that tightening the borrowing constraints in the mortgage markets promotes savings. Employing a six-period overlapping generations model with endogenous growth and a method of simulation calibrated on the Middle East, this paper demonstrates that the above...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403815
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Determinants of Growth in an Error : Correction Model for El Salvador
Méndez Morales, Armando - 1998
An error-correction model identifies determinants of growth consistent with results from panel regressions based on a standard Cobb-Douglas production function for El Salvador for 1970-1995, with structural factors affecting the technology variable and macroeconomics and expectations explaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403408
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Sources of Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : A Cointegration Approach
Cinyabuguma, Matthias - 2004
relative importance of total factor productivity growth and factor accumulation, using a cointegration method and a growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404167
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The Global Trade Slowdown: Cyclical or Structural?
2015 - Constantinescu, Cristina ; Mattoo, Aaditya ; Ruta, Michele ed
This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses an empirical strategy based on an error correction model to assess whether the global trade slowdown is structural or cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411917
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Capital and Trade As Engines of Growth in France : An Application of Johansen's Cointegration Methodology
Coe, David T. - 1993
An aggregate production function is estimated with recent cointegrating techniques that are particularly appropriate for estimating long-run relationships. The empirical results suggest that the growth of output in France has been spurred by increased trade integration within the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396036
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Linkages Between Financial Variables, Financial Sector Reform and Economic Growth and Efficiency
Johnston, R. B. - 1995
This paper analyzes the different channels through which financial variables and financial sector reform can affect economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and...
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Women are key for future growth : evidence from Canada
Petersson, Bengt; Mariscal, Rodrigo; Ishi, Kotaro - 2017
educational attainment would raise Canada's overall labor productivity growth by 0.2 to 0.3 percentage point a year. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705314
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Empirical Modeling of Contagion : A Review of Methodologies
Dungey, Mardi - 2004
The existing literature suggests a number of alternative methods to test for the presence of contagion during financial market crises. This paper reviews those methods and shows how they are related in a unified framework. A number of extensions are also suggested that allow for multivariate...
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