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Fiscal policy, public expenditure composition and growth. theory and empirics

Willi, Semmlero; Alfred, Greiner; Bobo, Diallo; Anand, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper responds to the development policy debate involving the World Bank and the IMF on the use of fiscal policy not only for economic stabilization but also to promote economic growth and increase per capita income. A key issue in this debate relates to the effect of the composition of...

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Strategic Capacity Investment under Holdup Threats: The Role of Contract Length and Width

Durand-Viel, Laure; Villeneuve, Bertrand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article analyzes the impact of incomplete contracts’ length on investment in a bilateral relationship. The seller has the power to set the contract terms whereas the buyer decides on the investment level, which acts as a cap on future demand. Two-part tariffs succeed at implementing the...

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Congestion pricing, infrastructure investment and redistribution

Russo, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We study congestion pricing by a government that has redistributive concerns, in the presence of optimal income taxation. Individuals differ in (unobservable) earning ability and consumption technology for commodities using a congestible network (e.g. roads, Internet). We find, assuming...

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Central Government's Infrastructure Investment across Chinese Regions: A Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Approach

Zheng, Xinye; Li, Fanghua; Song, Shunfeng; Yu, Yihua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study employs spatial panel techniques to examine determinants of regional allocation of infrastructure investment made by the central government. Using a sample of 31 Chinese provinces over the 2001-2008 period, we derived four major empirical findings. First, there exist substantial...

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Macroeconomic Effects of a Low-Carbon Electricity Transition in Kenya and Ghana : An Exploratory Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis

Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019

The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a …

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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components

Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

in Ghana. Using micro data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/2013, marginal …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … tax policies (such as Value Added Tax and National Health Insurance Levy in the case of Ghana) that provide exemptions for …

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Response of rice yields in Ghana: some prescriptions for future rice policy

Boansi, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

analyzed the response of rice yields in Ghana to major internal and external factors which have direct and indirect effects on …

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Spatial Price Transmission in the Regional Maize Markets in Ghana

Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Policy makers have been striving through market reforms to ensure proper functioning of agricultural markets and marketing channels to ensure food security, realize welfare impacts from policies, bridge the gap between the affluent and deprived regions. The core of which is due to regional...

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Joint Adoption of Safer Irrigation Technologies under Uncertainty: Evidence from Ghana

Owusu, Victor; Abdulai, Awudu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

technologies. The study employed a cross-sectional data on urban and periurban vegetable farmers in Kumasi of Ghana and examines …

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Modelling Renewable Energy Economy in Ghana with Autometrics

Ackah, Ishmael; Asomani, Mcomari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Renewable energy consumption has been identified as a potential solution to the intermittent power supply in Ghana …. Recently, a Renewable Energy Act has been passed which has a target of 10% of renewable energy component in Ghana’s energy mix … unrestricted model through Autometrics is used to estimate the determinants of renewable energy demand in Ghana. The results …

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