The objective of this paper is to analyze empirically the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on investment in Uruguay in a long run perspective (1960-2011). On the basis of varied theoretical and analytic elements, the descriptive analysis and one empirical study with the methodology of...

Slavonski Brod is the largest city of Brod-Posavina County and the sixth largest city in Croatia, located at the crossroads of intercontinental and interregional transportation route connecting Central and Eastern Europe. Slavonski Brod was a major center and market town once, but today there...

We provide the first theoretical analysis of the effects of alternate forms of taxation on economic growth in a dynamic model with multiple regions. The regions are heterogeneous, but, in each region, consumers have constant relative risk aversion preferences, there is no growth in the stock of...

This paper studies the effects of financial integration on economic growth using an international panel data of 83 countries from 1974-2007. The effects of financial integration on economic growth differ considerably, depending on the type of external assets and liabilities as well as on the...

This study presents an overlapping-generations model featuring endogenous growth, collective wage-bargaining, and probabilistic voting over fiscal policy. We charac- terize a Markov-perfect political equilibrium of the voting game within and across generations and show the following results....

This paper analyses the relationship between income inequality and economic growth through fiscal policy. To this end, we present and estimate two systems of structural equiation with error components through which gross income inequality determines different fiscal policy outcomes, which...

This article analysis the macroeconomic determinants of the infant mortality rate (IMR) in Uruguay and its components, focusing on the role of the gross product per capita (GDP), public spending (PS) and health spending (HS). A time series analysis is performed using annual data from 1910 to...

This paper investigates and compares the experience of several geographic regions with economic growth and convergence in income per capita. Income per capita is correlated positively with saving rates and negatively with population growth rates, though the explanatory power of these two...

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the effect of Corporate Reporting Practices on Public Confidence in Nigerian firms. We relied on the Nigeria Stock Exchange reports for data. The analyses were done using the Statistical Package for Social Science quantitative data analysis....

The paper reveals the aspects need to strengthen foreign relations as a precondi-tion for economic development of agricultural enterprises of Ukraine and the formation of the investment processes in them. Author proposes the drastic measures to solve the problems of agricultural sector and...