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We study the negative correlation between natural resource-abundance and long-term income focusing on the savings-investment … the issue. In this model, savings adjust downwards to income from natural resources, and investment in capital contributes … income through savings and investment. Natural resources have two counteracting effects on income. In the short term …
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In this paper, we show that Adam Smith pointed out the existence of the Feldstein-Horioka Paradox or Puzzle and even gave an explanation for it more than 200 years before the publication of Feldstein and Horioka (1980). Smith argues that it is the pursuit of their own security that leads owners...
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The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...
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positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between financial liberalization on the one hand and saving, investment … investment (although there are some signs to believe that liberalization may actually reduce rather than increase domestic saving …), whereas it is positively associated with private investment, as well as with per capita GDP growth. We find a negative …
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to expand the trade deficit and thus applied wholly to consumption or investment. In fact, for the period 1965-2006, the … output (meaning a reduction in the domestic savings rates) and 24% was used to increase the rate of investment. However …
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The low capital mobility among OECD countries, signalled by a high saving-investment (SI) relation and known as the …
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capital in the past. The conclusion is that within EMU domestic saving and investment will be less correlated than they were …
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The consequences of government debt on capital formation, financial wealth and labor are investigated in a small open economy with demographic heterogeneity. Two alternative types of demographics are considered: one with intragenerational heterogeneity of the ''savers-spenders'' (SS) type, and...
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We analyze a generalized neoclassical growth model that combines a normalized CES production function and possible asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the impact of factor substitution and income distribution...
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