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maintaining moderate inflation, the rate of investment; aggressive effort at domestic resource mobilisation; and structural change …
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macroeconomic developments regarding economic growth, inflation, external balance, the fiscal situation and aggregate savings and …
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This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...
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Using the currency demand approach size and development of the Colombian shadow economy are estimated over the period from 1976 to 2002. In the 70s the size fluctuated around 20% of official GDP and rose to 50% in the 90s. The most important factors driving the shadow economy are unemployment...
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depress growth. There are other arguments related to more immediate effects of debt on inflation and national solvency …
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Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...
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Successful economic development to a large extent derives from the mobilization of underemployed resources. Demand policy can play an important role. It is critical, however, to consider balance of payments constraints and to ensure an expansion of investment in the modern sector. A combination...
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-have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that allows for long-lived effects and inflation … combination of circumstances-i.e. capital inflows, structural reforms and the peculiar recent inflation history-can explain that …
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This paper uses a tractable macroeconomic model with idiosyncratic human capital risk and incomplete markets to analyze … business cycles eliminates the variation in idiosyncratic risk. The paper shows that a reduction in the variation in … idiosyncratic risk decreases the ratio of physical to human capital and increases the total investment return and welfare. If the …
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Several countries around the world have adopted the inflation targeting regime for monetary policy. Despite the growing … adopting inflation targeting. This working paper examines the extent to which macroeconomic policies anchored to inflation … targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to …
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