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Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Elsevier, 2020-11)This paper examines the effect of fiscal policy on financial markets over a long span of 125 years. Unlike existing studies that mainly focus on monetary policy shocks and model-based identification of fiscal policy shocks, ...
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(Elsevier, 2002)The purpose of this paper is to examine the exchange rate volatility of the ruble, before the August 1998 crisis, using a macro-economic model of the Russian Federation developed by Basdevant (2000). A main focus of this ...
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(Elsevier, 2015-06)We analyze herein the effects of the human capital adjustment cost on social mobility. Such an adjustment cost is modeled as a rising marginal cost schedule for augmenting human capital. We use a general human capital ...
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(Wiley, 2023-04)The sharp rise in inflation during the past few years has engendered comparisons with the great inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. Like that earlier episode, the recent inflation has been underpinned by supply-side ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2024-06)This paper surveys recent advances in drawing structural conclusions from vector autoregressions (VARs), providing a unified perspective on the role of prior knowledge. We describe the traditional approach to identification ...
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(Blackwell, 2007-12)This Presidential address briefly outlines the developments in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980 leading up to the current political and economic crisis. The Zimbabwean situation is assessed within the conceptual ...
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(Elsevier, 2010-01)In 2008, South Africa experienced a severe electricity crisis. Domestic and industrial electricity users had to suffer from black outs all over the country. It is argued that partially the reason was the lack of research on ...
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(Blackwell, 2004)The central argument of this paper is that African countries stand to benefit more from the goodwill currently being shown by industrialized countries who have committed themselves to further opening up of their markets ...
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(Blackwell, 2002-03)This paper investigates the usefulness of different definitions of the budget deficit and their impact on fiscal sustainability. The analysis shows that a number of alternative definitions of the budget deficit are useful, ...
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(Springer, 2008-11)No abstract available
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(Elsevier, 2016-06)Abu Dhabi, marketed as a centre of economic development in its geographic area during the post-oil era, is renowned for being a choice destination of high value individuals and tourists, due to its rich coastal and marine ...
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(World Scientific Publishing, 2022-06)This paper studies the relationship between monthly economic uncertainty of 20 advanced and emerging markets, and two daily covariates, i.e., exchange rate and stock index, with particular emphasis on the relationship ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-03)The growing focus on regional and international environmental cooperation has helped further discussions about environmental sustainability. This study evaluates agricultural economic productivity and how it is affected ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-11)Given the significance of the residential sector in terms of energy consumption, a comprehensive understanding of households’ energy consumption patterns and choices is imperative. This paper focuses on analysing and ...
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(Blackwell, 2006-03)This paper describes the evolution of inventory investment in South Africa over the past two decades, and identifies the factors influencing inventory investment over this period. An econometric model of inventory investment ...
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(Blackwell, 2006-09)One of the goals of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is macro-economic convergence leading to monetary unification and a single central bank. This goal is aligned with the goal of the African Union to build ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-05)Most of the growth in international production over the past decade has been carried out via cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Yet previous empirical work relating to CBM&As has been confined to firm-specific factors. ...
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(Tennessee State University College of Business, 2016)The successful conduct of monetary policy relies on accurately characterising inflation's data generating properties. Monetary policy errors that allow inflation to transition to a high inflation regime that is very ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2018-09)OBJECTIVES : To determine whether national antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage is associated with changes in the living arrangements of older adults. DESIGN : Retrospective analysis using 103 nationally representative ...
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(Routledge, 2019)In this paper, we focus on the stochastic (chaotic) attributes of the US dollar-based exchange rates for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) using a long-run monthly dataset covering 1812M01-2017M12, ...
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