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Inequality and savings: a reassesment of the relationship in cointegrated panels
Tuomas, Malinen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The effect of income inequality on savings and consumption has remained an open empirical issue despite several decades … research may have produced biased results on the effect of inequality on savings by assuming that inequality would be a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294673
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Factores explicativos do crescimento do PIB português
Pereira, Vítor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Aimed at understanding some of the factors explaining the growth of GDP, in the Portuguese case, to understand the correlation and is degree, on the situation of our sample, we conclude that the general linear model (Manso 1998), despite being fairly simple, is suitable to our purpose. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621918
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On the usefulness of government spending in the EU area
Salotti, Simone; Marattin, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We investigate the effects of fiscal policy on private consumption and investment in the European Union. A certain consensus has aroused that fiscal impulses have expansionary Keynesian effects on the economic activity. However, the existing empirical literature has concentrated on few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567667
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The quest for the best consumer confidence indicator
Jonsson, Andreas; Lindén, Staffan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Out of 11 questions included in the EU harmonised consumer questionnaire, it is possible to construct 2 047 different consumer confidence indicators. We search through all these indicators in order to find the single indicator that has the highest correlation with private consumption growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674248
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A Comprehensive Analysis of the Response of Private Consumption to Government Spending
Funashima, Yoshito - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper considers a simple model in which government spending is productive and has a complementary relationship with private consumption to study the response of the latter to government spending. We discuss how these two characteristics can yield empirical observations that indicate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113144
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On the usefulness of government spending in the EU area
Salotti, Simone; Marattin, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We investigate the effects of fiscal policy on private consumption and investment in the European Union. A certain consensus has aroused that fiscal impulses have expansionary Keynesian effects on the economic activity. However, the existing empirical literature has concentrated on few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642703
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An evaluation of policies to reduce fiscal pressure induced by population ageing in Australia
Bell, William Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Population ageing increases fiscal pressure by increasing the aged to working-age ratio, which simultaneously reduces the growth in government revenue and increases government social outlays. This study evaluates proposed tax and economic growth policies to meet the population ageing induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258581
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Consumption & Savings Behavior in Pakistan
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Pakistan. Consumption decisions determine savings decisions. In long term growth literature, differences in long term growth … had been explained to a large extent by differences in the rate of savings which also determine a country’s investment in … determinants of savings in Pakistan economy. The results indicate evidence of consumption smoothing and relatively stable Average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258849
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Mobilization of Personal Savings among Microfinance-Participating Households: A Survey in West Bengal, India
Kundu, AMIT - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
savings, as distinct from savings through compulsory contributions to the program. We consider a microfinance program … income increases more in treatment-group households, the increase in personal savings of the microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259347
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The peculiarities of the financial market development in Ukraine
Shkolnyk, Inna; Kozmenko, Olha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper addresses the condition of savings and investments enviroment in the world economy and in particular regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259981