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Exploring policy complementarities in transition economies : the case of Kazakhstan
Punthakey, Jibran J. - 2014
Policy complementarities have often been overlooked in transition economies, leading to the exclusion or partial adoption of reforms. This paper examines the key determinants of successful transition strategies, and concludes that an approach exploiting complementary relationships and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430646
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Loans to Households and Unemployment Reduction : A Worldwide Panel Data Analysis (2001–2011)
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - 2012
In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that loans to households trigger consumption which in turn through the creation of economic growth, as claimed by Saito (2007), reduces unemployment. Austerity measures should not last for too long, since economy will face too many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096108
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How well do individuals predict the selling prices of their homes?
Benítez-Silva, Hugo; Eren, Selcuk; Heiland, Frank; … - 2009
Self-reported home values are widely used as a measure of housing wealth by researchers; the accuracy of this measure, however, is an open empirical question, and requires some type of market assessment of the values reported. In this study, the authors examine the predictive power of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942953
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The measurement error problem in dynamic panel data analysis : modeling and GMM estimation
Biørn, Erik - 2012 - Publisert 13. feb. 2012 09:52 - Sist endret 13. feb. 2012 10:14
The Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is discussed for handling the joint occurrence of fixed effects and random measurement errors in an autoregressive panel data model. Finite memory of disturbances, latent regressors and measurement errors is assumed. Two specializations of GMM are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489019
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Growth and structural changes in transition countries : the chicken or the egg?
Olczyk, Magdalena; Kordalska, Aleksandra - 2018
The theoretical analysis of structural changes in the context of economic growth has a long tradition. However, studies which analyze the empirical relationship between these two economic categories are still very rare. In the literature, whether growth causes structural changes or the other way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844751
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Financial Sector : The Engine of Growth for Central and Eastern Europe?
Eller, Markus; Haiss, Peter R.; Steiner, Katharina - 2011
This paper examines the impact of financial sector foreign direct investment (FSFDI) on economic growth by estimating a panel data model for 11 Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) between 1996 and 2003 in a cross-country growth accounting framework. The analysis concentrates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060105
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A New Look at the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle Using an Integrated Panel
Zanghieri, Paolo; Banerjee, Anindya - 2006
correlations between savings and investment observed within countries. A large literature has emerged to investigate this issue … answers remain by and large elusive. Since we argue that the savings and investment series in our panel are integrated of … savings and investment. Our particular contributions are (a) to consider the puzzle comprehensively, using both time series …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068629
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Saving up and diversifying income for a rainy day : implications for households' resilience strategies and poverty
Do, Manh Hung - 2023
correlation between households' risk attitude and their resilience-building strategies, namely savings as an absorptive capacity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428159
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Demography, financial openness, national savings and external balance
Graff, Michael (contributor); Tang, Kam Ki (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of demographic factors on saving, investment, and external balances. We derive a number of semi-structural equations from national accounting principle and the principle that external balances for the world as a whole must sum to zero. The resulting equations...
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Business cycle fluctuations and private savings in OECD countries : a panel data analysis
Adema, Yvonne; Pozzi, Lorenzo - 2012
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