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The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a disaggregated country-specific representation of the power sector to simulate the prospective medium-run growth and distributional implications associated with a shift towards a...
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We investigate, both theoretically and empirically, how the negative effects of government corruption on economic growth are magnified or reduced by capital account liberalization. Our model shows that highly corrupt countries impose higher tax rates than do less corrupt countries, thereby,...
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volatility in nominal interest and exchange rates raised risk and amplified exogenous shocks. The second factor raising …
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financial under-development to foreign reserve accumulation in some emerging market economies, especially in China. It is argued …
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This study investigates the relationship between workers’ remittances and economic growth in China and Korea by … remittances and economic growth in China. Error correction model confirms the significant positive short run relationship of … workers’ remittances with economic growth in Korea while, the results of China were insignificant in short run. Causality …
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This paper focuses on the impact of full capital account liberalization on macroeconomic volatility in Greece … reduce macroeconomic volatility. The link between macroeconomic volatility and capital account openness in the Greek economy …. There is no strong evidence for a stable relation between macroeconomic volatility and variables of financial openness. Thus …
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reflect the different information which have been imbedded in the housing market in the long-time. The high volatility of the … investment choices. In a macroeconomic framework these combined effects negatively push on aggregate demand with a huge shock to … shock in Residential Property Prices becomes persistent after six quarters. This last outcome confirms that huge upward or …
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: (i) monetary volatility negatively affects long-run growth; (ii)the relation between nominal volatility and growth … increases the negative effect of nominal volatility on mean growth. …
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We attempt to explain stock market dynamics in terms of the interaction among three variables: market price, investor opinion and information flow. We propose a framework for such interaction and apply it to build a model of stock market dynamics which we study both empirically and...
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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...
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