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The supply of human capital in the economy's production activities is a function of the quality and volume of education … services provided at the secondary and tertiary levels in the education system. Hence, the allocation of resources by … government to education is an important determinant of human capital formation. Depending on its level-specific variations, a …
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This paper looks at the history of money and its modern form from a scientific and mathematical point of view. The approach here is to emphasize simplicity. A straightforward model and algebraic formula for a large economy analogous to the ideal gas law of thermodynamics is proposed. It may be...
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In this paper, a modification is made to the endogenous growth model studied by Lucas [1988]. It is shown that if … equilibrium growth rate. Consumption taxation may increase the growth rate. If there is an externality in production of human … capital, then it may be optimal to impose a capital tax, as opposed to a subsidy, to achieve the optimal growth rate. This may …
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with less unexplained growth. The theory distinguishes between three different sources of education gains: (1) supply …Growth accounting exercises using standard human capital measures are limited in their ability to attribute causal … effects and to explain growth. This paper develops a model of growth and schooling consistent with these decompositions but …
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Through a continuous reform of its fiscal system (especially the tax system), the Republic of Croatia has harmonized them with those of EU countries, in keeping with European integration processes and the intention to become a full EU member. Certain differences are still in place (tax rates,...
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This paper presents a structural macro-econometric model of the Maltese economy developed at the Modelling & Research Office of the Central Bank of Malta during 2012. This model is small-scale, consisting of 19 behavioural equations (estimated on quarterly data from 2000 to 2011) and 130...
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We investigate the effects of "contractionary" monetary shocks by imposing sign restrictions on the impulse responses of macroeconomic variables up to six months while allowing industrial production and exchange rate to be completely determined by the data. We show that i) the effect of an...
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This paper examines the impact of real exchange rate volatility on economic growth in Kenyan. The study employed the … on economic growth for the period January 1993 to December 2009. Data for the study was collected from Kenya National … RER Volatility reflected a negative impact on economic growth of Kenya. …
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We explore the connection between the average propensity to consume (APC) and wealth to income ratio (WY) in the US. We find evidence of a long-run relationship characterised by threshold error correction. It is the APC that responds to long-run disequilibrium where the speed of adjustment is...
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In Volume I of Capital, Marx offers actual data from a Manchester spinning factory describing that business. In Volume II, he offers schemes of reproduction to help understand accumulation of capital while mentioning numbers that actually suggest correlation to the spinning factory data....
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