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Finance, growth, and public policy
Gertler, Mark; Rose, Andrew - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000879348
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The effects of volatility, fiscal policy cyclicality and financial development on growth : evidence for the Eastern Caribbean
Brückner, Markus; Carneiro, Francisco Galrão - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408756
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Finance, growth, and public policy
Gertler, Mark; Rose, Andrew - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138529
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Eurobonds : a quantitative analysis of joint-liability debt
Tsiropoulos, Vasileios - 2019
This paper assesses the consequences of implementing a joint liability debt system in a two-country small open economy model. With joint liability a default of one country makes the other participant liable for its debt. The results highlight a trade-off between the contagion risk, in the sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114435
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Mobile money and investment by women businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Islam, Asif; Muzi, Silvia - 2020
become widespread and have increased investment by businesses, especially in East Africa. Second, women-owned business in the … study connects the two findings by exploring whether mobile money use by women-owned firms increases their investment. The … findings indicate that the positive relationship between mobile money use and investment is largely driven by women-owned firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297805
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Potential growth : outlook and options for the Russian Federation
Okawa, Yoki; Sanghi, Apurva - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002576
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Property rights, political connections, and corporate investment
Miao, Meng; Tang, Dragon Yongjun; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2019
studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased … investment rate for titling firms, and the positive effect holds only for politically connected firms. The effects are likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113989
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The distributive impact of taxes and expenditures in Colombia
Núñez Méndez, Jairo; Olivieri, Sergio; Parra, Julieth; … - 2020
Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most unequal countries in the region, after Brazil and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230740
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What are the poverty and inequality impacts of fiscal policy in Turkey?
Cuevas, P. Facundo; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Nebiler, Metin - 2020
Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and individual incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257124
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Expansionary fiscal austerity : new international evidence
Nie, Owen - 2020
The expansionary fiscal contraction (EFC) hypothesis states that fiscal austerity can increase output or consumption when a country is under heavy debt burdens because it sends positive signal about the country's solvency situation and long-term economic wellbeing. Empirical tests of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297616