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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910879
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Turkish voter response to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, caused enormous amounts of death and destruction …, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the … on the other hand, were responsible for the incompetence shown in providing relief, for involvement in corruption related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397166
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Business Cycle Synchronisation in EU : A Time-Varying Approach
Degiannakis, Stavros Antonios - 2018
This paper investigates the time-varying correlation between the EU12-wide business cycle and the initial EU12 member-countries based on Scalar-BEKK and multivariate Riskmetrics model frameworks for the period 1980-2012. The paper provides evidence that changes in the business cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910120
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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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Iterative Least Squares Estimator of Binary Choice Models: a Semi-Parametric Approach
Wang, Weiren; Zhou, Mai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
Most existing semi-parametric estimation procedures for binary choice models are based on the maximum score, maximum … method offer good potential for practical applications of semi-parametric estimation of binary choice models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107416
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An investigation of granger causality between tax revenues and government expenditures
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The nexus between government revenue and government expenditure always wins the attention of policy makers and think tanks while they work four making fiscal policies for an economy. This paper is an empirical investigation on the unidirectional causality between government expenditures and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401067
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Recent Literature on Taxable-Income Elasticities
Giertz, Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper reviews the literature on taxable-income elasticities, focusing primarily on empirical studies examining the U.S. tax changes of 1981, 1986, 1990, and 1993 and the bracket creep of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The paper first provides background on the importance of the elasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039971
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Reflexões sobre a Avaliação do Quadro Fiscal Regional: Implicações para o Algarve
Martins, Alexandre; Pinto, Hugo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The article discusses the central conclusions of the study "Evaluation of Regional Fiscal Framework: Business Location and Local Finance" (Barreira, 2008). A reflection on some of the core principles of local finance, equity and benefit, shows that there are inconsistencies in the case of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549623
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Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in the European Transition Economies
Mirdala, Rajmund - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
EU member countries are currently exposed to negative implications of the economic and financial crisis. In connection with this problem arises the question of an anti-cyclic role of an economic policy or more precisely the (regulatory) role of the government in the economy that seems to be the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550064