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-separability of the utility function, inflation aversion, nominal transaction frictions). The monograph is organized as follows … market share competition with the assumption that agent?s behavior is characterized by inflation aversion. Chapter IV is … devoted to the GMM estimation of crucial parameters of the inflation-aversion model of the previous chapter. A model featuring …
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Drives Inflation. Chapter IV introduces a second model of a corrupt central banker, one who sells inside information … general seems to increase the inflation rate. My model of the corrupt central banker provides a new explanation of this effect …, that is, that corruption leads to a higher rate of inflation and/or higher seigniorage, will be tested for a cross …
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in two districts in Kenya between May 2005 and September 2005. Multinomial logit models and ordered probit models were …, Household Model, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Ordered Logistic Regression, Kenya. …
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A model of a small open economy in which agents trade in local goods markets and an economy-wide asset market is developed. Purchasing-power parity is assumed to hold at the aggregate level. However, because of local deviations from purchasing-power parity, agents possess differential...
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. Analysis is based on a random cross section sample of 439 small-scale export vegetable producers in Kenya whose production was …
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Creation of light for work, socializing, and general illumination is a fundamental application of technology around the world. For those who lack access to electricity, an emerging and diverse range of LED based lighting products hold promise for replacing and/or augmenting their current...
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study of lighting use by micro-enterprises in two small towns in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. The work included a survey …
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endogeneity of supermarket purchases. Kenya’s supermarket landscape is dynamic and so far, it has followed the ‘traditional …
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The purpose of this thesis is to argue that the core of a monetary economy is a network of triangular contracts between banks, firms, workers and capital goods suppliers. Not only does this network give rise to the creation and valuation of money but it is the organising feature of modern...
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. Overall the results suggest that inflation expectations are relatively forward looking in developing countries. This is … consistent with the elevated inflation rates that many of these countries have experienced over long periods of time. The …
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