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The great housing boom of China
Wen, 文一; Chen, kaiji - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014
This paper provides a theory to explain the paradoxical features of the great housing boom in China —the persistently faster-than-GDP housing price growth, exceptionally high capital returns, and excessive vacancy rates. The expectation that high capital returns driven mainly by resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011027343
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Productivity and ICT: A Review of the Evidence
Draca, Mirko; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
We survey the micro and macro literature on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth accounting and econometric evidence suggest an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510438
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Latvijas iestāšanās Eiropas Savienībā ekonomiskā efekta novērtēšana
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
For Latvia with incoming into the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In paper various indicators of a national economy before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855257
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Business Uncertainty in Developing and Emerging Economies
Avalos, Edgar; Barrero, Jose Maria; Davies, Elwyn; … - 2024
volatility generates investment and growth opportunities in poor countries. But high uncertainty and low overprecision slow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096838
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Capital dynamics, global value chains, competitiveness and barriers to FDI and capital accumulation in the EU
Adarov, Amat; Stehrer, Robert - 2020
investment using panel data techniques. Among other results, we confirm the high importance of tangible and intangible ICT … ICT investment, tackling the barriers to ICT adoption and broad-based digitalisation are critical for the EU in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232879
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Effect of interest rate on economic performance: evidence from Islamic and non-Islamic economies
Mushtaq, Saba; Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed - In: Financial Innovation 2 (2016) 9, pp. 1-14
Background: Saving and investment are two of the most important tools for economic growth. The interest rate has always … been considered an important determinant of saving and investment. However, according to Islamic teachings, riba or earning … interest on saving or investment is forbidden, and thus, many Muslims try to avoid earning income from the interest rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808216
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Steady-state growth and the elasticity of substitution
Irmen, Andreas - 2010 - This version: February 9, 2010.
In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This confirms the assessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931235
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Steady-state growth and the elasticity of substitution
Irmen, Andreas - 2010
In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This confirms the assessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938203
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Effect of interest rate on economic performance : evidence from Islamic and non-Islamic economies
Mushtaq, Saba; Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed - In: Financial innovation : FIN 2 (2016) 9, pp. 1-14
Background: Saving and investment are two of the most important tools for economic growth. The interest rate has always … been considered an important determinant of saving and investment. However, according to Islamic teachings, riba or earning … interest on saving or investment is forbidden, and thus, many Muslims try to avoid earning income from the interest rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542371
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International trade and net investment : theory and evidence
Bretschger, Lucas; Valente, Simone - 2011
The theory of welfare accounting shows that comprehensive measures of net investment can be used to test whether an … economy is following unsustainable paths of consumption. However, the notion of net investment used in most applied studies … expression of net investment derived from a dynamic growth model featuring international trade in different types of resource …
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