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Determinants of International Bank Lending from the Developed World to East Asia
Siregar, Reza Yamora; Choy, KM - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The reversal of capital flows from the banking sector, rather than portfolio equity investment, has long been …
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THE FELDSTEIN-HORIOKA PUZZLE AND TRANSITION ECONOMIES
Petreska, Despina; Mojsoska-Blazevski, Nikica - In: Economic Annals 58 (2013) 197, pp. 23-46
and investment. In their seminal paper from 1980 Feldstein and Horioka estimated a value of the β coefficient close to 1 … panels, but the connection between savings and investment is generally lower than 1. As we move towards a panel composed of … disequilibrium between domestic savings and investment is positive in all cases, indicating that any imbalance between savings and …
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The East African Community; Prospects for Sustained Growth
McAuliffe, Catherine; Saxena, Sweta Chaman; Yabara, Masafumi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
The East African Community (EAC) has been among the fastest growing regions in sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade or so. Nonetheless, the recent growth path will not be enough to achieve middle-income status and substantial poverty reduction by the end of the decade—the ambition of...
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Four Decades of Terms-of-Trade Booms; Saving-Investment Patterns and a New Metric of Income Windfall
Adler, Gustavo; Magud, Nicolas E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
asset accumulation appear to have contributed more to post-boom income than those devoted to domestic investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242443
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Police and the Rule of Law: Recent Developments in India
Agarwal, Anurag K - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines some of the recent pronouncements of the Supreme Court and other High Courts and tries to analyse them vis-à-vis the understanding of the rule of law in India. [IIMA W.P. No.2014-04-02].
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Globalization and Civil Liberty in Turkey
Ghosh, Baidyanath N.; Li, Eric A.L. - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 60 (2007) 2, pp. 157-180
On the basis of civil-liberty index and trade openness ratio ([export + import]/GDP), this empirical study makes use of time series data (1972-2001) to analyze the relationship between trade liberalization and civil liberty in Turkey. With the help of cointegration analysis, the study comes to...
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Effects of rent dependency on quality of government
Anthonsen, Mette; Löfgren, Åsa; Nilsson, Klas; … - In: Economics of Governance 13 (2012) 2, pp. 145-168
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Political institutions, intertemporal cooperation, and the quality of public policies
Scartascini, Carlos; Stein, Ernesto; Tommasi, Mariano - In: Journal of Applied Economics XVI (2013) May, pp. 1-32
While economists have tended to focus on specific public policies when developing recommendations, the achievement of welfare objectives might depend more on the quality of policies than their content. This paper develops several measures of the qualities of policies across countries, arguing...
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How institutions affect export quality
Faruq, Hasan A. - In: Economic Systems 35 (2011) 4, pp. 586-606
We examine the relationship between a country's institutional environment and the quality of its exports. Institutional factors such as widespread corruption, inefficient bureaucracy, and high risk of expropriation of private property by government can create uncertainty among producers and...
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Structural Reforms, IMF Programs and Capacity Building; An Empirical Investigation
Arezki, Rabah; Quintyn, Marc; Toscani, Frederik G - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper investigates the role that International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and capacity building play in fostering structural reforms. To do so, we exploit two novel datasets on IMF capacity building and structural reforms available for over one hundred IMF member countries over the period...
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