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This paper investigates evidence on the effect of dollar depreciation on the US tourism balance of trade. Export revenue and import spending functions are estimated separately with structural vector autoregressive methods to better capture the dynamic adjustment to exchange rate shocks....
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Applying ARDL Cointegration, Johansen modelling and generalised impulse response function analyses in this paper, we provide new evidence for the Turkish Bilateral J-curve hypothesis in the short and long-run using both annual aggregated and disaggregated data over 1960 and 2000 period between...
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the emphasis on privately managed, funded pensions must get the tax treatment right. This paper sets out the options for … taxing pensions, and the arguments between them. The tax treatment in 35 different countries is described and summarized in …
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The EU expansion process is a dynamic one which requires the candidate country to acknowledge the latest developments in communitarian social policy. The dominant economic aspects are currently reinforced by the social ones. Likewise, a consensus must exist regarding the implementation in...
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the role of privately managed defined-contribution pensions. An obvious question is how these regimes are likely to affect …. Pensions can be actuarially adjusted, depending on the year at which benefits are first drawn. We show that the incentives in a …
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While other regions — Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America in particular — have been active in pension reform, the Middle East and North Africa have lagged behind. In part this is because of the belief that favourable mean financial problems are still far in the future and pension...
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A number of countries have introduced individual, privately managed defined-contribution accounts, where the value of the pension benefit will depend on accumulated contributions and investment returns. These schemes expose workers’ future pension benefits to a number of different risks. To...
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Pension fund charges reduce the rate of return on pension accounts in some countries by up to by two percentage points. Do charges of this scale undermine the case for funded pension provision? How can governments hold back costs and charges? This paper looks at evidence from thirteen countries,...
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Reforming pensions is one of the biggest challenges of the century. All OECD countries have to adjust to the ageing of … pensions but the increases necessary to compensate for ageing are so large that one cannot rely on them alone. Most OECD … calculation methods and adjustment of paid-out pensions make it very difficult to compare pension policies across countries …
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