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The effects of currency appreciation on share market return: ARDL approach

Ma, Shiguang; Tian, Gary G - 2009

This study employs the ARDL cointegrating approach to examine the impact of financial liberalization on the …

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The Impacts of Ethanol on the US Catfish Farm Sector

Zheng, Hualu; Muhammad, Andrew; Herndon, Cary W. - 2008

examined using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. Results show that a 1% increase in corn prices caused a 0 …

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Essays on Tax Evasion and Government Spending in Developing Countries

Embaye, Abel Berhe - 2007

. It comprises three essays. The first essay deals with estimation of tax evasion in a cross-section of developing … evasion measurement. Our estimation strategy includes the use of the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data method that is suitable … for correcting the endogeneity problem in the currency demand estimation. The study finds substantial underground economy …

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Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests a positive linear link between the size of...

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Mission Implausible III: Measuring the Informal Sector in a Transition Economy using Macro Methods1

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - 2004

An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...

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Labor Supply, Informal Economy and Russian Transition

Bouev, Maxim - 2001

The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...

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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy: A Labour Market Approach

Bouev, Maxim - 2002

This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...

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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector

Bouev, Maxim - 2005

This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...

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Požiūriai į neapmokestinamas pajamas, 2004 m. balandis

Nausėdienė, Inga - 2004

Tyrimo tikslas: įvertinti atlyginimų "vokelyje" praktikos paplitimo mastus Lietuvoje. Respondentams buvo pateikti klausimai, ar jie gauna neapmokestinamų pajamų bei klausta, kokią dalį pajamų procentais sudaro tokios neapmokestinamos pajamos. Socialinės demografinės charakteristikos:...

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Establishing Ergonomics in Industrially Developing Countries

Stewart, K; Silverstein, B; Kiefer, M - 2008

The introduction of ergonomics is an ongoing effort in industrially developing countries and will ultimately require an organized, programmatic approach spanning several countries and organizations. Our preliminary efforts with our partner countries of Viet Nam, Thailand, and Nicaragua have...

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