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The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy

Makin, Anthony; Zhang, Wei; Scobie, Grant - 2008

New Zealand's unrelenting current account deficits, its trade performance and high external debt level remain central to ongoing economic policy debates. However, what has been overlooked in the discussion of New Zealand's economic relations with its trading partners is the positive contribution...

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Convergence in GDP per Capita in the Euro Area and the EU at the Time of COVID-19

Licchetta, Mirko; Mattozzi, Giovanni - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 43-51

This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021. It finds that the COVID-19 crisis temporarily slowed convergence but the estimated negative impact is significantly smaller than during the global financial crisis. Diverging...

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As causas imediatas do crescimento da renda, da redução da desigualdade e da queda da extrema pobreza na Bahia, no Nordeste e no Brasil entre 2003 e 2011

de Souza, Pedro H. G. F. - 2013

poverty reduction in five different geographic regions - Brazil, the Northeastern region, the state of Bahia, the metropolitan … the Programa Bolsa Família. Thus, both growth and redistribution contributed decisively to poverty reduction in Brazil and …-term prospects for pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Brazil will hinge on a more equitable labor market in the Northeastern …

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Aumento do acesso à Internet em banda larga no Brasil e sua possível relação com o crescimento econômico: Uma análise de dados em painel

Macedo, Hildebrando Rodrigues; de Carvalho, Alexandre … - 2010

access density in Brazil and the GDP and GDP per capita growth. Broadband access densities, GDP, GDP per capita and the …

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Dívida pública e passivo externo: Onde está a ameaça?

Gentil, Denise Lobato; Araúja, Victor Leonardo de - 2012

This work aims to analyze if the trajectory and composition of net and gross, public debt and external liabilities can hinder the growth of Brazilian GDP. The work concludes that fiscal indicators are more comfortable that external indicators. The net public debt is falling and less linked to...

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Aumento da penetração do serviço de acesso à Internet em banda larga e seu possível impacto econômico: Análise através de sistema de equações simultâneas de oferta e demanda

Macedo, Hildebrando Rodrigues; de Carvalho, Alexandre … - 2010

impact on the GDP and GDP per capita, resulted of the increase in the broadband internet access diffusion in Brazil …

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Eignung von Frühindikatoren für die Prognose des Produktionszuwachses in der Welt und in der Gruppe der Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer: Gutachten im Auftrag der KfW Bankengruppe

Drechsel, Katja; Giesen, Sebastian; Holtemöller, Oliver; … - 2013

Das Gutachten untersucht, ob die IWF-Prognosen für den Zuwachs des Bruttoinlandsprodukts in der Welt und in der Gruppe der Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer mithilfe von gängigen Frühindikatoren verbessert werden können. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Prognosegüte der IWF-Prognosen mit...

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Short-term forecasting of GDP using large monthly datasets – A pseudo real-time forecast evaluation exercise

Barhoumi, K.; Benk, S.; Cristadoro, R.; Den Reijer, A.; … - 2008

This paper evaluates different models for the short-term forecasting of real GDP growth in ten selected European countries and the euro area as a whole. Purely quarterly models are compared with models designed to exploit early releases of monthly indicators for the nowcast and forecast of...

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A look into the factor model black box: publication lags and the role of hard and soft data in forecasting GDP

Banbura, Marta; Rünstler, Gerhard - 2007

We derive forecast weights and uncertainty measures for assessing the role of individual series in a dynamic factor model (DFM) to forecast euro area GDP from monthly indicators. The use of the Kalman filter allows us to deal with publication lags when calculating the above measures. We find...

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Flow of conjunctural information and forecast of euro area economic activity

Drechsel, Katja; Maurin, Laurent - 2008

Euro area GDP and components are nowcast and forecast one quarter ahead. Based on a dataset of 163 series comprising the relevant monthly indicators, simple bridge equations with one explanatory variable are estimated for each. The individual forecasts generated by each equation are then pooled,...

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