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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"macroeconomic policies"”.
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Three essays on the sustainable macroeconomic policies
… and the interaction between monetary and fiscal policies are also investigated. Finally, we analyze the determinants of the government arears and delayed payment including institutional and cultural variables. In Chapter 1, we investigate how the fiscal reaction function is shaped regarding …
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Essays on inequality, interest rates and macroeconomic policies
… three chapters on inequality, interest rates and macroeconomic policies. The first chapter explores the macroeconomic consequences of the recent rise in permanent income inequality. First, I show that in many common macroeconomic models consumption is a linear function of permanent (labor) income. …
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An evaluation of macroeconomic policies in Greece within an optimal control theory framework
… the effectiveness of fiscal (and monetary) policies on a set of macroeconomic objectives, giving explicit consideration to the alternative modes by which the budget deficits (or surpluses) are financed. The extent to which quantitative reductions in the share of the public sector is …
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Restaurant Crowdfunding Activities and African American Restaurateurs' Financing Experiences: From Macroeconomic Policies to Ethnic Enclaves
… without considering influential factors at the macroeconomic level. Additionally, notwithstanding the National Restaurant Association’s call to support a greater number of African American restaurateurs, the financing behaviors regarding race remain understudied in the restaurant industry. …
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The Impact Of Corporations Excess Saving Behavior And Macroeconomic Policies On Poverty Incidence: Empirical Analysis Of Indonesia, Philippines And Thailand
… The extents of these reforms not only involve macroeconomic policies but most importantly affect the behavior of economic agents and have challenged traditional economic assumptions and fundamentals. The first chapter analyzes the issue of a savings glut that arose due to the claim that …
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Essays on economic crises and institutions
Countries that have pursued distortionary macroeconomic policies, including high inflation, large budget deficits and misaligned exchange rates, appear to have suffered bigger exchange rate crises, more macroeconomic volatility and also grown more slowly during the postwar period. Does this reflect …
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Inflation uncertainty, monetary shocks and economic growth: evidence from Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Peru
… in this paper demonstrates that inconsistent macroeconomic policies, such as sizable and chronic budget deficits result in sustained and variable inflation as well as lower economic growth in the long-run.
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Essays in macroeconomics
In this thesis, I cover three relevant topics in macroeconomics: the effects of trade liberalization, the effect of institutions and the determinants of credibility on macroeconomic policies. The first essay revisits the empirical work on the effects of trade liberalization and analyzes how it …
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A small open economy modelling: A Bayesian DSGE approach
… mechanism in a small open economy based on the macroeconomic models is vital for successfully implementing forward-looking and counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies. In the context, this thesis focuses on the importance of various modelling implications (i.e., frictions and shocks) in …
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A small open economy modelling: A Bayesian DSGE approach
… mechanism in a small open economy based on the macroeconomic models is vital for successfully implementing forward-looking and counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies. In the context, this thesis focuses on the importance of various modelling implications (i.e., frictions and shocks) in …
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Africa returning East : can the China development model travel to Africa?
… for developing countries to alter their macroeconomic policies and closely coupled development agenda. However, the successes of economies to the east of Africa are providing an alternative to following the prescriptions and rules set by the 'Western' economies. Because of these …
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Elevating Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effect of Infrastructure Investment in Alleviating Poverty
… investment by ensuring stability in macroeconomic policies and strengthening and enforcing anti-corruption laws.
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The foreign policy of a radicalised state- the two level game of Zimbabwe's relations with the IMF (2000-2007)
… resulting from loan repayment arrears and failed macroeconomic policies. This dissertation argues that these justifications oversimplify the relationship between the Fund and Zimbabwe in the 2000s. As such, three factors are essential for a more comprehensive analysis into the country's foreign …
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ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS' AID
… the incentives of incumbents regarding optimal macroeconomic policies, encouraging them to take actions that worsen macroeconomic outcomes in order to signal the desirability of some structural reforms. The second half of the dissertation studies the impact of IFI aid on domestic conflict. Given …
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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Tanzania 1975-2013
… the Tanzania’s government should encourage macroeconomic policies that favour and promote the FDIs, and also should be more open to the international markets in light of promoting economic growth and development while at the same time, trying to curb inflation.
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The Evolution of the U.S. Trade Regime: From New Deal to Neoliberal, 1971 – 2001
… intercurrent clash between neoliberal trade and macroeconomic policies, which catalyzed a second major crisis in the 1980s. In this landscape, U.S. officials employed commercial and monetary power to deflect import and balances of payments adjustment and revive industrial dominance by remaking …
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Currency convertibility and payments arrangements between the common monetary area and the preferential trade area for Eastern and Southern African states
… It is shown that the implementation of macroeconomic policies and exchange rate regimes which are not complementary cause exchange rate misalignment resulting in balance of payments disequilibria leading to currency inconvertibility. Since the preconditions for transformation to full …
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Testing Market Efficiency of MENA Equity Returns
… market efficiencies, studying the most effective macroeconomic variables and the impact of economic policy uncertainty, and transparency on stock returns. The study also investigates how Stock Market Efficiency responds asymmetrically to different macroeconomic policies, transparency, and economic …
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Investment in training: a matter for rational decision making?
… research demonstrates that industry-wide (or macroeconomic) policies designed to increase employees' skills do not necessarily result in the desired gains at a local (or microeconomic) level.
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