PORTRAIT OF LOW SAVINGS IN AFRICA
... average of less-developed countries of Asia. These are primarily as a result of high influence of some key negative determinants of savings in the continent. Hence Africa experienced a very wide savings gap which is a constraint to economic growth and the methodology to bridge the savings gap thro ...
... average of less-developed countries of Asia. These are primarily as a result of high influence of some key negative determinants of savings in the continent. Hence Africa experienced a very wide savings gap which is a constraint to economic growth and the methodology to bridge the savings gap thro ...
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... we assess the relative contribution of each channel to financing fiscal activity for the period 1960-2005. The third and final focus is to use this framework to assess (statistically) whether the substantial expected increase in fiscal deficits threatens the current low levels of inflation. The find ...
... we assess the relative contribution of each channel to financing fiscal activity for the period 1960-2005. The third and final focus is to use this framework to assess (statistically) whether the substantial expected increase in fiscal deficits threatens the current low levels of inflation. The find ...
Quiz 1 - solutions
... a. useful only in the analysis of economic behaviour in individual markets. b. useful in analyzing the overall economy, but not in analyzing individual markets. c. not particularly useful in either macroeconomic or microeconomic analysis. d. central to macroeconomic analysis as well as to microecono ...
... a. useful only in the analysis of economic behaviour in individual markets. b. useful in analyzing the overall economy, but not in analyzing individual markets. c. not particularly useful in either macroeconomic or microeconomic analysis. d. central to macroeconomic analysis as well as to microecono ...
Skaidrė 1
... Finance To set forth a procedure regulating state monetary funds management, forecasting, and accountability When forecasting need of borrowed funds to assess all possibilities provided by the Government for use of temporarily free money of state monetary funds To speed the investment of tempo ...
... Finance To set forth a procedure regulating state monetary funds management, forecasting, and accountability When forecasting need of borrowed funds to assess all possibilities provided by the Government for use of temporarily free money of state monetary funds To speed the investment of tempo ...
Towards a European Union Child Basic Income?
... replace all existing child contingent tax concessions and cash transfers. A variation of this form of CBI could involve the setting of a universal level of child minimum income that would be unconditionally guaranteed to every child. Under the principle of subsidiarity, each Member State could choos ...
... replace all existing child contingent tax concessions and cash transfers. A variation of this form of CBI could involve the setting of a universal level of child minimum income that would be unconditionally guaranteed to every child. Under the principle of subsidiarity, each Member State could choos ...
19e ch 35 insert C
... 7. Suppose the government misjudges the natural rate of unemployment to be much lower than it actually is, and thus undertakes expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to try to achieve the lower rate. Use the concept of the short-run Phillips Curve to explain why these policies might at first succ ...
... 7. Suppose the government misjudges the natural rate of unemployment to be much lower than it actually is, and thus undertakes expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to try to achieve the lower rate. Use the concept of the short-run Phillips Curve to explain why these policies might at first succ ...
Australian Federal Government deficits, debt and
... The lower section of chart 1 shows the cumulative Commonwealth debt balance over time since Federation. We can see that main debt build-ups were caused by the massive deficit spending efforts in the two World Wars. The debt-to-GDP ratio also increased in the 1930s depression, but it was not due to d ...
... The lower section of chart 1 shows the cumulative Commonwealth debt balance over time since Federation. We can see that main debt build-ups were caused by the massive deficit spending efforts in the two World Wars. The debt-to-GDP ratio also increased in the 1930s depression, but it was not due to d ...
the annual national accounts database
... base/reference year used by the country concerned as well as with the OECD base/reference year (VOB---measure). Implicit price indices (DOB measure) for the main components of GDP are also shown with the OECD base/reference year. All OECD member countries publish chained volume estimates except Mexi ...
... base/reference year used by the country concerned as well as with the OECD base/reference year (VOB---measure). Implicit price indices (DOB measure) for the main components of GDP are also shown with the OECD base/reference year. All OECD member countries publish chained volume estimates except Mexi ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LIQUIDITY TRAPS AND EXPECTATION DYNAMICS:
... In the Phillip’s curve relationship (15) one might wonder why in‡ation does not also depend directly on the expected future aggregate in‡ation rate.6 Equation (10) is obtained from the …rst-order conditions using (3) to eliminate relative prices. Because of the representative agent assumption, each ...
... In the Phillip’s curve relationship (15) one might wonder why in‡ation does not also depend directly on the expected future aggregate in‡ation rate.6 Equation (10) is obtained from the …rst-order conditions using (3) to eliminate relative prices. Because of the representative agent assumption, each ...
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... interest rate, which in turn causes an increase in borrowing and spending. ↓ Price level ↓ demand for loans ↓ i-rate ↓ Price Level ↓ i-rate ↑ Investment ...
... interest rate, which in turn causes an increase in borrowing and spending. ↓ Price level ↓ demand for loans ↓ i-rate ↓ Price Level ↓ i-rate ↑ Investment ...
Debt and deficit: KPMG Research Report
... The theory The theory of ‘Ricardian equivalence’ asserts funding government spending through means of a deficit (or increased debt) is not likely to stimulate the economy as households recognise that they are only going to be required to pay this additional spending back at a time in the future. Thi ...
... The theory The theory of ‘Ricardian equivalence’ asserts funding government spending through means of a deficit (or increased debt) is not likely to stimulate the economy as households recognise that they are only going to be required to pay this additional spending back at a time in the future. Thi ...
Structure of Jamaica`s GDP
... production accounts. Durable goods purchased by households are derived from household surveys and for motorcars are obtained from information on motor vehicle registration from the registrar’s office. The estimates of dealer’s margin, transportation and installation costs are derived from periodic s ...
... production accounts. Durable goods purchased by households are derived from household surveys and for motorcars are obtained from information on motor vehicle registration from the registrar’s office. The estimates of dealer’s margin, transportation and installation costs are derived from periodic s ...
How does an increase in government purchases affect the economy?
... productivity should fall. As with real wages, the key question is: Which prediction is correct? The major difficulty in answering this question is identifying exogenous changes to government purchases. Simply observing what happens to real wages and average labor productivity after government purch ...
... productivity should fall. As with real wages, the key question is: Which prediction is correct? The major difficulty in answering this question is identifying exogenous changes to government purchases. Simply observing what happens to real wages and average labor productivity after government purch ...
Lecture 7. Classical monetary theory
... From Alfred Marshall and Arthur Pigou, Keynes had inherited an alternative version of the above statement of relationship between goods, prices and money, which focused more on money demand, rather than supply: Md = k · P · Y The Cambridge economists argued that a certain portion of the money supply ...
... From Alfred Marshall and Arthur Pigou, Keynes had inherited an alternative version of the above statement of relationship between goods, prices and money, which focused more on money demand, rather than supply: Md = k · P · Y The Cambridge economists argued that a certain portion of the money supply ...
Units 4 and 10 – Answers
... b. increases aggregate output and decreases the aggregate price level. c. decreases both aggregate output and the aggregate price level. d. increases both aggregate output and the aggregate price level. e. decreases aggregate output and increases the aggregate price level. ____ 48. If commodity pric ...
... b. increases aggregate output and decreases the aggregate price level. c. decreases both aggregate output and the aggregate price level. d. increases both aggregate output and the aggregate price level. e. decreases aggregate output and increases the aggregate price level. ____ 48. If commodity pric ...
Fiscal Consequences for Mexico of Adopting the Dollar
... For the purposes of thinking about dollarization, the main point to emerge from (4) is that it implies a set of tradeoffs for fiscal policy in the face of a surprise disturbance to current and expected future levels of the right-hand side variables. Severe, sudden fiscal stress can arise from war, n ...
... For the purposes of thinking about dollarization, the main point to emerge from (4) is that it implies a set of tradeoffs for fiscal policy in the face of a surprise disturbance to current and expected future levels of the right-hand side variables. Severe, sudden fiscal stress can arise from war, n ...
Macroeconomic Issues and Policy
... Fiscal Policy: Deficit Targeting • The Gramm-RudmanHollings Bill, passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Reagan in 1986, is a law that set out to reduce the federal deficit by $36 billion per year, with a deficit of zero slated for 1991. ...
... Fiscal Policy: Deficit Targeting • The Gramm-RudmanHollings Bill, passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Reagan in 1986, is a law that set out to reduce the federal deficit by $36 billion per year, with a deficit of zero slated for 1991. ...
The Impact of Budget Deficit
... and then to point C. Output has temporarily increased above the natural level, but eventually has declined, while the price level has climbed up to the new height (from P2 to P3)2. Keynesian analysis of the situation predicts the same movements in aggregate demand and aggregate supply curves. The on ...
... and then to point C. Output has temporarily increased above the natural level, but eventually has declined, while the price level has climbed up to the new height (from P2 to P3)2. Keynesian analysis of the situation predicts the same movements in aggregate demand and aggregate supply curves. The on ...
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... decades, driven partly by falling fertility rates in the past and partly by projected mortality improvements in the future. Although almost all developed countries need to deal with similar …scal issues associated with ageing demographics, the problems facing Australia are quite di¤erent. The Austra ...
... decades, driven partly by falling fertility rates in the past and partly by projected mortality improvements in the future. Although almost all developed countries need to deal with similar …scal issues associated with ageing demographics, the problems facing Australia are quite di¤erent. The Austra ...
Chapter 8
... A. Government saving is part of total saving. Because funds flow between countries and the real interest rate is determined in the world market, it is the aggregate saving of all governments throughout the world that matters. In total, government is large; worldwide, government saving is negative (g ...
... A. Government saving is part of total saving. Because funds flow between countries and the real interest rate is determined in the world market, it is the aggregate saving of all governments throughout the world that matters. In total, government is large; worldwide, government saving is negative (g ...
Real GDP
... One cause of inflation is the growth in the quantity of money. When the government creates large quantities of money, the value of the money falls. ...
... One cause of inflation is the growth in the quantity of money. When the government creates large quantities of money, the value of the money falls. ...
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... 41) Common sense suggests (and macroeconomists agree!) that sustained economic growth over extended time periods is more important than the economy's short-term fluctuations. Why, then, do macroeconomists (and policymakers, and the general public) care so much about the business cycle? Answer: One r ...
... 41) Common sense suggests (and macroeconomists agree!) that sustained economic growth over extended time periods is more important than the economy's short-term fluctuations. Why, then, do macroeconomists (and policymakers, and the general public) care so much about the business cycle? Answer: One r ...
The effects of Monetary Policy shocks across the Greek Regions
... mechanism suggests that regions with more export-intensive industries may be more responsive to monetary policy innovations (see, for example, Hayo and Uhlenbrock, 2000). Ber et al. (2001) find that export-intensive firms are cushioned from monetary policy shocks. When domestic interest rates are ti ...
... mechanism suggests that regions with more export-intensive industries may be more responsive to monetary policy innovations (see, for example, Hayo and Uhlenbrock, 2000). Ber et al. (2001) find that export-intensive firms are cushioned from monetary policy shocks. When domestic interest rates are ti ...