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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Macroeconomic policy"”.
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Current account dynamics and macroeconomic policy
… and how these imbalances are influenced by macroeconomic policy. These issues are dealt with in three related studies. Even though literature argues that fiscal policy may be more capable of attaining current account stability if supported by monetary policy measures, only a few studies …
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Exchange rate pessimism in Tanzanian macroeconomic policy
… be effective in developing countries thus making policy makers pessimistic on its use.
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Essays on the financial sector and macroeconomic policy
… in the macroeconomy and the role for macroeconomic policy. Chapter 3 deals with computational issues, and develops in more detail a part of the solution technique used in Chapter 2. Chapter 4 shifts towards the market for government bonds and examines whether fiscal policy reacts to …
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Institutional and macroeconomic policy dynamics in transition economies
… analyses on some of the institutional and macroeconomic challenges experienced by transition economies along their developmental trajectory. The thesis begins with an analysis of the reallocation of resources. Chapter 2 presents a model in which two groups in society are engaged in …
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Empirical Analysis of China’s Exchange Rate and Macroeconomic Policy
… examines the effects of exchange rate and macroeconomic policy in China. It consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 explores the dynamics of monetary transmission mechanism. As China’s domestic financial markets deepen and develop further toward a market-based system, the country’s monetary …
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Essays on nominal rigidities, bounded rationality, and macroeconomic policy
This thesis consists of three chapters about macroeconomic policy. In the first chapter, I study the empirical relationship between nominal rigidities and the real effects of monetary policy. Nominal rigidities lie at the core of macroeconomics. The empirical evidence suggests that prices and wages …
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On macroeconomic policy, effective demand and unemployment : the European experience
… their right to exercise fiscal and monetary policy independently, have signed up to a set of rules and regulations that will eventually lead to European and Monetary Union (EMU). These set of rules as reflected by both the Maastricht criteria as well as the Stability and Growth Pact, contain …
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Monetary regimes and macroeconomic policy: An empirical analysis of the Brazilian economy
The purpose of this thesis is a characterization of the monetary regime followed by the Brazilian authorities during the 80's and beginning of the 90's, and its consequences for the credibility of anti-inflationary policies, the solvency condition of the government, and the power of restrictive …
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El Serafy User costs and their implications for macroeconomic policy in Africa's mineral rich economies
… mineral based. Their sustainability and their macroeconomic vulnerability to market fluctuations are accordingly matters of direct concern. This thesis asks how much of the proceeds of mining in such countries can be safely spent each year. Using El Serafy’s approach to the ‘proper’ definition …
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Essays on macroeconomics and risk premium
The thesis consists of three essays on how macroeconomic policy can be an important determinant of risk premium and how variations in risk premium may affect macroeconomic policy. Unconventional monetary policy represents a main example of how the transmission of macroeconomic policy is mediated by …
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Derivatives markets and real economic activity
… seriously the impact of derivatives on policy issues. However, what is needed is further insight into and analysis of the impact of derivative growth on macroeconomic policy and the macroeconomy. Such insights should enable policy makers to use derivatives to their best advantage. …
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An investigation of the determinants of private investment: the case of Botswana
… developing countries emphasize the importance of macroeconomic policy in explaining variations in investment, an in particular, identify the microeconomic determinants of private investment to include interest rates, output growth, public investment, bank credit to the private sector, inflation, …
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Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Sub Saharan Africa
… by Net Official Development Assistance (NODA); macroeconomic variables are trade openness, government capital formation and labour force. The study seeks to answer the question: Does foreign aid contribute to economic growth? The study explores the hypothesis that foreign aid does not promote …
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Financial Globalization, Shadow Banking and Interest Rate Transmission: Evidence from China
… system and the effectiveness of monetary policy have been questioned since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007/2009. At stake is the capacity of monetary authorities to isolate international monetary policy shocks under financial globalization coupled with the rapid development of …
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Macroeconomic Determinants of Economic Growth after financial sector in Tanzania
The study analyses macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in Tanzania after financial sector reforms. It aims to examine the effect of Budget deficit (BD), Inflation rate (INFL), Exchange rate (EXCH) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth in Tanzania. The study uses the …
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Monitoring financial stability risks of South African collective investment schemes
… stability and systemic risk have been central to macroeconomic policy since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007/2008. Whereas the regulatory focus previous to the crisis was on micro-prudential risk management of the formal banking sector, policymakers and supervisors realized that …
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Constructing a new measure of poverty for the UK
… thesis will proceed to a discussion of the macroeconomic policy implications following from different poverty definitions, integrating the poverty literature into the wider economic literature. This step will identify the existence of problematic trade-offs in poverty policies, providing a …
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Public health, free movement and macroeconomic coordination : mapping the evolving governance of European Union health policy
… and intriguing sphere of European Union (EU) policy, not least of all because it has only been recognised as such for the last 15 years. From piecemeal origins in public health and occupational safety it underwent dramatic expansion as a result of exposure to free movement and internal market …
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Market Challenges to Democracy: The Political Economy of Hyman P. Minsky
… how things can be a matter for either economic "policy" or "political economy" as if these categories were all jumbled up in a grab bag of available methodologies. This dissertation seeks to carve out some intellectual terrain in what can be called political economy by engaging in an …
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Disarticulated agricultural growth: a comparative study of two Chilean regions
… consumption levels, and attempts to advance some policy alternatives. An important contribution of this dissertation is to interpret the ongoing process of regional differentiation in Chilean agriculture through the analytical framework of disarticulated growth. The results of this study indicate …
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