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Savings and investment for growth resumption in Latin America: The cases of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia

Bacha, Edmar Lisboa - 1992

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Optimal taxation with capital accumulation and wage bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This study examines optimal taxation in a unionized economy in which households save capital. The main findings are as follows. Judd?s (1985) and Chamley?s (1986) classical results of zero taxation on capital income holds. This is true independently of workers? savings behaviour or the...

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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2007

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy...

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Factor substitution, income distribution, and growth in a generalized neoclassical model

Irmen, Andreas; Klump, Rainer - 2007

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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The Impact of Rural Enterprises on Household Savings in China

Zhu, Qiuxia - 2004

den Entwicklungsländern ist ein wichtiger Gegenstand der Entwicklungsforschung. Jedoch wurde die Investition als eine … Investition in den nicht-landwirtschaftlichen Sektor als eine wichtige Sparmotivation für ländliche Haushalte zu betrachten ist … ländlichen Haushalte verstärkt sparen. Die Manager der TVEs haben große Motivation zu sparen, um ein kollektives TVE unter dem …

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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268642

The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...

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Rebalancing growth in Asia

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009

Rebalancing growth patterns of Asian economies is an important component of the overall rebalancing effort that will be required in the world economy. In this paper, I provide an empirical characterization of the composition of GDP levels and growth rates for the key emerging markets and other...

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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Measuring international capital mobility: A critical assessment of the use of saving and investment correlations

Sinn, Stefan - 1991

Economists have been interested in the degree of international capital mobility for a variety of reasons. E.g., the extent to which public deficits crowd out domestic investments depends on the ease with which domestic firms may access the international capital market. The welfare reduction due...

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