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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"SAVING AND INVESTMENT"”.
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Optimal investment in an oil-based economy. Theoretical and Empirical Study of a Ramsey-Type Model for Libya.
… oil revenues which are subjected to disturbances and shocks. Therefore, the decision to save and invest a certain ratio of the country's aggregate output is, to large extent, determined (and affected) by the shocks in the oil markets rather than the requirements of economic development. In this …
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Savings, investment and economic growth in Namibia
This study examined the interaction between saving, investment and economic growth in Namibia. The relationship between these variables is central to Namibia’s guiding macroeconomic framework. However, empirical evidence has shown that the relationship between saving, investment and economic growth …
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Optimal Plan Design and Dynamic Asset Allocation of Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Lessons from Behavioural Finance and Non-expected Utility Theories
… by the recent literature on behavioural finance and intertemporal life-cycle investment theory. In this thesis two alternative utility forms are considered: loss aversion and Epstein-Zin recursive utility. We develop a dynamic-programming-based numerical model with uninsurable stochastic labour …
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Optimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets
Optimal intertemporal investment solution paths are derived for both, firms operating in perfect financial markets and those facing credit constraints, due to imperfect capital markets. However, as in these markets, saving and investment decision may not be separable, we obtain the optimal dynamic …
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The Impact of Oil Revenue on the Iranian Economy
… in the country, the quality of institutions, and the efficacy of the financial system. Some empirical research has found that natural resources, particularly oil, can have a positive impact on the output of a country. although natural resources are not a factor of production in growth …
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Current account sustainability: evidence from South Africa
… a set of "leading indicators" behind large and persistent reductions ('reversals') in South Africa's current account. It begins by providing a theoretical analysis of current account sustainability based on the intertemporal optimisation of consumption, saving and investment decisions. …
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Inflation and economic growth: a dynamic analysis of deficit finance
… impact of ICF spendings are accounted for and it is shown that the resulting public capital formation is simply a substitute for otherwise available private capital formation, then the policy of ICF would have failed the first test. Second, if ICF spendings do accelerate output growth, what …
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Investigating the stability of private comsumption in Namibia
… consumption is the component of aggregate demand which has been regarded to be stable relative to the other components. However, the current study shows that this has not been the case for Namibia during the period 1980 to 2006. Namibia.s political independence in 1990 did not only bring …
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Informal finance for the middle and high income individuals in South Africa : a case study of high budget "stokvels" in Pretoria
… the use of informal financial services by middle and high-income individuals in South Africa with specific reference to rotational savings and credit associations, locally known as stokvels. The ultimate aim was to recommend ways in which banks and other formal financial institutions could aptly …
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Distributable profits : bridging the gap between the Companies Act and the financial reporting framework
… arises between the Maltese Companies Act (MCA) and the financial reporting framework in determining distributable profits (DP). Since dividend restrictions feature as one of the main pillars of the capital maintenance (CM) doctrine established by Directive 77/91/EEC, the study also aims to …
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Emergency fund provision among young student adults in Malaysia : a behavioural perspective
Financial behaviour is complex and difficult to measure. Existing literature on the emergency fund remains lacking in terms of its theoretical testing and modelling, not to mention its accurate definition of emergency fund behaviour itself. Prior studies also suffer from providing sufficient …
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Four Essays in International Economics
… the roles of both stage of economic development and labor market frictions. In general, for a typical developing country with low labor productivity and high labor market frictions, a fixed exchange rate regime would yield a higher level of welfare than a floating regime as the former generates …
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Four empirical essays on the role of institutional quality, political instability and entrepreneurship for economic growth and jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa
… countries experienced sound economic growth and a declining rate of poverty over the last two decades. Though, by far, the SSA region remains the poorest in the world and faces tremendous political, social, and economic challenges. Moreover, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SSA entered into a …
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Ο ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΟΣ
… AGAIN THE MAN AS THE PRIME FACTOR IN PRODUCTION AND THE SOCIAL RELATIONS AFTER THE ABSOLUTE DOMINATION OF THE MACHINE, AFTER THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE IMPOSITION OF DEPENDENT FROM DIFFERENT IDEOLOGIES, MAN TRANSFORM HIMSELF AGAIN IN CITIZEN, IN AUTONOMOUS AND DETERMINANT FACTOR OF SOCIAL …