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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Saving rate"”.
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… the reasons behind the fall in the personal saving rate as measured in the National Income and Product Accounts.</p><p>In the first essay I study the effects of changes in uncertainty on optimal financing and investment in a dynamic firm financing model in which firms have access to complete …
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The impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth in South Africa
… economic growth, inflation, real interest rate, and saving rate. Co-integration methods, ARDL and ECM were used to analyse the data. To avoid spurious regression results on time series data, the researcher tested for stationarity of the data by using Augmented Dickey-Fuller test and …
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Micro-econometric studies of how government programs affect labor supply and saving in Mexico
… effects of different government programs on the savings and labor supply behavior of Mexican households and individuals. The first two chapters deal with household saving behavior and government intervention. Chapter 1 assesses the impact of increasing financial access on low-income people saving …
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Three essays on asset pricing
… of oil prices on stock returns. Firstly, I illustrate a mechanism for oil shocks to translate into stock market risk under a 2-consumption good CCAPM model framework. Then I use U.S. data and a bivariate EGARCH-DCC model to estimate the dynamic second moments of crude oil price changes and stock …
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Aggregate and disaggregated fluctuations
… substantial improvement in the prediction of the saving rate. Furthermore, a concave frontier induces short-run aggregate effects of relative demand shifts, thereby fostering the propagation of the shocks under consideration, which overall account for 86% of the aggregate fluctuations. When I …
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Fertility And Economic Growth
… on the relation between fertility and wage rates and examines the effects on fertility and growth of subsidies for education and for the cost of rearing children by assuming that agents care about the consumption and number of children. Without education, this model reconciles two …
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The impact of capital market development on economic growth among MENA region countries
… assumed to have not effectively utilized to generate economic growth due to structural and cultural factors albeit their potential prospects. Hence this study analyses and measures the historical impact of capital market development on the economic growth of four leading countries in the MENA …
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Three essays on the endogenous growth of a regional economy under the impacts of demographic changes
… to the decline of the labor force and aggregate saving rate. The first chapter adopts the two-sector overlapping generation (OLG) model to capture the impact of population ageing on the regional economy and compares the effectiveness of government policy in an endogenous growth perspective. …