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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Crowding out effect"”.
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Two Essays Analyzing the Behavioral Economics Underlying Health Decisions: Delay Discounting and Crowding Out Effect
… it plays a role in producing numerous health outcomes, such as obesity. It is important to understand how the delay discounting process relates to unhealthy diets. People who discount the value of future outcomes prefer immediate rewards (e.g., enjoyment/taste) even though a larger reward from …
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Alternative Modes of Federal Deficit Financing, Money Growth, Inflation, Interest Rates and the Crowding-Out Effect
… deficits can have one or more of the following effects: (i) stimulate the economy when it is operating short of capacity utilization; (ii) generate inflationary pressures; (iii) crowd out private investment thus decreasing economic growth; and (iv) increase the public debt.
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Crowded Out: The Effect of Sex Ratios on the Sex Worker Labor Market and Migration in India
… paper examines how India’s distorted sex ratios effects the migration of sex workers. By using a modified gravity model of migration the results in this paper indicates that an over supply of sex workers in a local market leads to a crowding out effect, and pushes the women to migrate to …
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Financial impacts of and financing methods for high-speed rail in Portugal
… environment friendly ones, create an image effect for the country building it, promote regional economics, etc., HSR is more capital intensive than other transportation projects in both unit cost (the cost per lane km) and total cost. Due to its high costs and public or private budget …
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Inward foreign direct investment and productivity: evidence from Vietnamese microdata
… thesis investigates the direct, indirect and crowding-in/crowding-out effects of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on firm productivity in Vietnam; and whether the effects are heterogeneous across firm and industry characteristics and geographic regions. Using a Cobb-Douglas production …
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An analysis of monetary velocity in an open economy
… empirical results remain scarce. In this study, effects of international forces on nominal income and the income velocity of money are investigated for twenty-two industrialized countries for the period, 1954-1973. Two general functional forms are considered. They are the income approach …
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on economic growth in Thailand
This study investigates the effects of public infrastructure investment on economic growth under Thailand‟s fiscal sustainability framework. A recursive supply-side model based on the Standard Neoclassical Model framework is used using Thai national data on public revenue (taxes, non-tax revenue …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… as well as a decrease in sales growth. The effect of government spending is more pronounced among firms that are smaller-sized, more geographically concentrated, and located in regions with higher employment rate. Furthermore, we find direct evidence that an exogenous increase in government …
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Assessing the impact of domestic and external debt on the Gambia’s economic growth : an ardl analysis
This study investigates the short- and long-run effects of domestic and external public debt on economic growth in The Gambia, a low-income economy characterized by persistent fiscal constraints and external vulnerabilities. Using annual data from 1976 to 2023, the analysis employs the …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, BANKING PERFORMANCE, PRIVATIZATION, AND GROWTH
… rights on the banking industry, and (2) the effects of property rights, contracting rights and intellectual property rights concurrent to privatization of state owned enterprises on a wide range of industries. First, it uses a sample of 37 countries to assess the effects privatization on …
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Economic and health implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa: a household expenditure analysis
… implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa. Issues covered include the crowding-out effect of tobacco expenditure on household expenses, and the impact of parental tobacco and alcohol consumption on child health outcomes. The thesis emphasises the interconnectedness of tobacco …
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SHAPING STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: TWO ESSAYS ON THE ROLE OF SCHOOL-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS
… achievement. The first paper examines the effects of the introduction of school canteens in Italian primary schools on students’ standardized test scores in Italian, mathematics and English. The results indicate that, while no effect is observed in grade 2, a positive and statistically …
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Essays on taxation: positive and normative aspects
… college-bound children as opposed to those without. Households without college-bound children do not need to save for education and thus are not affected by the program. The comparison of savings for the two groups, correcting for individual characteristics, reveals the impact of the Education …
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Returns to Education: Evidence from the UK
… between two types of education, I examine the effect of the education expansion on the returns to higher levels of vocational qualification, based on the difference-in-difference (DID) methodology. The results suggest that the reform has negative effects on the wage of holders of higher levels …
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Three essays in financial economics
… growth, as well as an increase in dividend payouts and repurchases. The effect of government spending is more pronounced among firms that are smaller-sized, more geographically concentrated, and located in regions with higher employment rate. Furthermore, we find direct evidence that an …
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Essays on The Economics of Aging
… supply of older workers have raised issues about the fiscal solvency of health care and pension systems, as well as labor market stability and employment opportunities for younger workers. In light of these facts, this dissertation consists of three essays that focus on the economic causes and …
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Three essays in development economics: Private transfers, farmers' retirement, and learning failures
… we find that the rural pension has a significant crowding out effect on the old-age support from the elders' children, induces large transfers to children, and also triggers rural-to-urban migration of the children. In addition, we use a within-sibling model to show that the children who live in …
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Der Einfluss der leistungsorientierten Bezahlung auf die Public Service Motivation und die intrinsische Motivation von Beschäftigten im öffentlichen Sektor : ein empirischer Test der Motivation Crowding Theory am Beispiel der Kreisverwaltung Potsdam-Mittelmark
… einer Verdrängung der intrinsischen Motivation (Crowding-Out Effekt) führen kann. Mithilfe eines empirischen Tests der Motivation Crowding Theorie gelangt diese Arbeit zu einem differenzierteren Urteil. Es wird gezeigt, dass im Beispiel der Kreisverwaltung Potsdam Mittelmark die subjektive …