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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
Vor dem Hintergrund der bisherigen theoretischen und empirischen Studien untersucht diese Arbeit vornehmlich die kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern.Die wachsenden Zuflüsse ausländischer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476170
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Ciencia Política en América Latina
Nohlen, Dieter - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476211
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The Informal Sector and Economic Development in Latin America: A Brief Study of the Chilean Model
Ono, Hiroshi (contributor) - 2009
A major hindrance to the achievement of steady economic growth is widespread informal employment, also known as the informal sector. The informal sector is a complex phenomenon which is pervasive in developing regions of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America. It was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465131
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Medicaid Crowd-Out of Long-Term Care Insurance with Endogenous Medicaid Enrollment
Kim, Geena - 2010
With states facing tightening Medicaid budgets, the high cost of financing long-term care for the elderly through Medicaid has prompted proposals to make private long-term care insurance (LTCI) more affordable through tax incentives. The effectiveness of tax incentives for stimulating LTCI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439040
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Rising longevity, education, savings, and growth
Zhang, H.; Zhang, J. S.; Lee, R. - 2003
This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it raises the saving rate and thereby increases the rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447922
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Population Pressures, Saving, and Investment in the Third World: Some Puzzles
Kelley, Allen - 1988
considered three adverseimpacts of population growth on savings and capital formation........ …
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Solving the Feldstein–Horioka Puzzle With Financial Frictions
Bai, Yan; Zhang, Jing - 2010
Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly … that the calibrated model with both frictions produces a savings–investment correlation and a volume of capital flows close …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476626
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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - 2001
changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …
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PRECAUTIONARY SAVINGS IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES
Roitman, Agustin S. - 2010
(1990). This particular feature enables us to isolate the effect of risk aversion on precautionary savings. Furthermore, I … intertemporal distortions on precautionary savings in finite and infinite horizon models of a small open economy. The effects of … of shocks on precautionary savings and verify that these are qualitatively identical to the ones observed with CES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450605
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The role of nonbank intermediation in a financially repressed economy (theory and evidence based on the Korean economy, 1972--1994)
Choi, Joong-Kyung - 2003
-period dynamic model that under certain conditions nonbank intermediation increases an economy's savings mobilization and contributes … to banks in financial intermediation, increased the savings mobilization, and in the end contributed to the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451225