Dominican Republic - Lazard Asset Management
... United States and Venezuela. This strong relationship is not only reflected in trade, but also in the form of other treaties, such as the free trade agreement with the United States that was approved in 2005.7 The Dominican Republic has traditionally also had strong economic ties with Venezuela, whi ...
... United States and Venezuela. This strong relationship is not only reflected in trade, but also in the form of other treaties, such as the free trade agreement with the United States that was approved in 2005.7 The Dominican Republic has traditionally also had strong economic ties with Venezuela, whi ...
Lecture 1
... • GDP is the best single measure of the economic well-being of a society. • GDP per person tells us the income and expenditure of the average person in the economy. • Higher GDP per person indicates a higher • standard of living. • GDP is not a perfect measure of the happiness • or quality of life, ...
... • GDP is the best single measure of the economic well-being of a society. • GDP per person tells us the income and expenditure of the average person in the economy. • Higher GDP per person indicates a higher • standard of living. • GDP is not a perfect measure of the happiness • or quality of life, ...
WHAT ARE THE LESSONS FROM POST-COMMUNIST TRANSITIONS? Dalibor Rohácˇ*
... The emphasis on liberalisation and tackling macroeconomic imbalances was informed by neoclassical price theory, which was quick to identify disequilibrium prices as the main problem of the socialist economy. If the hindrances to the functioning of markets were removed, competitive forces would resto ...
... The emphasis on liberalisation and tackling macroeconomic imbalances was informed by neoclassical price theory, which was quick to identify disequilibrium prices as the main problem of the socialist economy. If the hindrances to the functioning of markets were removed, competitive forces would resto ...
Francisco Gomes* Alexander Michaelides CRR WP 2003-16
... (t + 1) conditional on being alive at time t is denoted by pt (p0 = 1). Given these survival probabilities, the weight of each cohort in the population can be computed as wt = pt wt−1 where w0 = p0 and the demographic weights are normalized to sum to one. We will allow for both accidental and intent ...
... (t + 1) conditional on being alive at time t is denoted by pt (p0 = 1). Given these survival probabilities, the weight of each cohort in the population can be computed as wt = pt wt−1 where w0 = p0 and the demographic weights are normalized to sum to one. We will allow for both accidental and intent ...
Koizumi`s structural reform and the Japanese economy
... account statistics both the government final consumption and the government capital formation are included separately, and they are very useful as two different kinds of policy variables in the macro model analysis. The problem is that the Japanese accounting system for government expenditure (budg ...
... account statistics both the government final consumption and the government capital formation are included separately, and they are very useful as two different kinds of policy variables in the macro model analysis. The problem is that the Japanese accounting system for government expenditure (budg ...
Innovation and growth in resource-based economies: some
... what are in effect active family-based or bank-based closed-end investment companies; the most famous of these is the investment vehicle of the Wallenberg family, Investor AS. There are at least a dozen such family groupings, often playing an active role in enterprise strategy, organization and oper ...
... what are in effect active family-based or bank-based closed-end investment companies; the most famous of these is the investment vehicle of the Wallenberg family, Investor AS. There are at least a dozen such family groupings, often playing an active role in enterprise strategy, organization and oper ...
Cambodia: rapid growth in an open, post
... Working Papers in Trade and Finance 2014/12 effects of KR rule were devastating: it is estimated that about one-quarter of the population perished owing to mass executions, malnutrition and disease, or fled the country. The KR also abolished most formal institutions of the state, including private p ...
... Working Papers in Trade and Finance 2014/12 effects of KR rule were devastating: it is estimated that about one-quarter of the population perished owing to mass executions, malnutrition and disease, or fled the country. The KR also abolished most formal institutions of the state, including private p ...
I. Introduction: Three Basic Questions
... Example 2: We can illustrate graphically how there specialization and trade can lead to both Robinson and Crusoe to be better off. To start with, let’s see what Robinson and Crusoe could produce in a given month (30 days) using our data from Example 1. Figure 1 illustrates Robinson’s production poss ...
... Example 2: We can illustrate graphically how there specialization and trade can lead to both Robinson and Crusoe to be better off. To start with, let’s see what Robinson and Crusoe could produce in a given month (30 days) using our data from Example 1. Figure 1 illustrates Robinson’s production poss ...
IB Economics Section 2.6 Supply
... 25. Explain how investment in education and training will raise the levels of human capital and have a short-term impact on aggregate demand, but more importantly will increase LRAS. Increased Spending on Education and Training: Economists disagree about the scale of the likely economic and social ...
... 25. Explain how investment in education and training will raise the levels of human capital and have a short-term impact on aggregate demand, but more importantly will increase LRAS. Increased Spending on Education and Training: Economists disagree about the scale of the likely economic and social ...
Lack of financial security…1
... Agricultural output has increased since 1984 but its share of GDP has declined from 8.9% to 2.8% Banking and insurance has more than doubled its share of GDP since 1984 from 7.4% to 15.5% (due to development of commercial banking) Government has retained constant share of economy in 14-16% range sin ...
... Agricultural output has increased since 1984 but its share of GDP has declined from 8.9% to 2.8% Banking and insurance has more than doubled its share of GDP since 1984 from 7.4% to 15.5% (due to development of commercial banking) Government has retained constant share of economy in 14-16% range sin ...
Macroeconomic Policy and the AD/AS Model
... • Fiscal policy looks easy but in reality it is more difficult because there are important time lags in its use. • Recognition Lag: The government has to realize that the recessionary gap exists because economic date takes time to collect and analyze, and • Recessions are often recognized only month ...
... • Fiscal policy looks easy but in reality it is more difficult because there are important time lags in its use. • Recognition Lag: The government has to realize that the recessionary gap exists because economic date takes time to collect and analyze, and • Recessions are often recognized only month ...
Economic Growth
... Real GDP per person grows because technological change induces a level of saving and investment that makes capital per hour of labor grow. Growth ends only if technological change and/or incentives for technological change stops. ...
... Real GDP per person grows because technological change induces a level of saving and investment that makes capital per hour of labor grow. Growth ends only if technological change and/or incentives for technological change stops. ...
Fiscal Policy, Co-Integration And Economic Stability In Nigeria
... expenditure when the economy is faced with recession may stimulate aggregate demand for goods and services and result to a large increase in income via multiplier process while reduction in taxes will bring about increase in the disposable income, investment expenditure and quickly stimulate consump ...
... expenditure when the economy is faced with recession may stimulate aggregate demand for goods and services and result to a large increase in income via multiplier process while reduction in taxes will bring about increase in the disposable income, investment expenditure and quickly stimulate consump ...
Modelling Social Learning in an Agent
... indeed consist in fully introducing bounded rationality and learning at the individual level, in the formulation of agents’ behaviour. One approach has already been tested in other macroeconomic models, and it constitutes a natural candidate in our eyes: social learning of individual agents (see Ari ...
... indeed consist in fully introducing bounded rationality and learning at the individual level, in the formulation of agents’ behaviour. One approach has already been tested in other macroeconomic models, and it constitutes a natural candidate in our eyes: social learning of individual agents (see Ari ...
Ciudadanía activa y mercado laboral
... In this context, another one of the factors that affect participation and governance is the role of social movements. There are increasingly more associations, entities and social groups that work for greater social democratization and this means that there are new possibilities opening up for the p ...
... In this context, another one of the factors that affect participation and governance is the role of social movements. There are increasingly more associations, entities and social groups that work for greater social democratization and this means that there are new possibilities opening up for the p ...
Dualistic Economic Structure and Unemployment in
... average GDP growth of 9% per year, China’s booming economy seems to have painted a spectacular future for the largest population of the world. It is true that reforms in agriculture, urban housing, taxation, medical care and state-owned enterprise have created numerous jobs and considerably enhanced ...
... average GDP growth of 9% per year, China’s booming economy seems to have painted a spectacular future for the largest population of the world. It is true that reforms in agriculture, urban housing, taxation, medical care and state-owned enterprise have created numerous jobs and considerably enhanced ...
time inconsistency of policy
... – This lag arises because it takes time for policymakers first to recognize that a shock has occurred and then to put appropriate policies into effect to deal with it • The outside lag is the time between a policy action and its influence on the economy – This lag arises because policies do not imme ...
... – This lag arises because it takes time for policymakers first to recognize that a shock has occurred and then to put appropriate policies into effect to deal with it • The outside lag is the time between a policy action and its influence on the economy – This lag arises because policies do not imme ...
Measuring a Nations Income
... and low in others? • Why do prices rise rapidly in some time periods while they are more stable in others? • Why do production and employment expand in some years and contract in others? ...
... and low in others? • Why do prices rise rapidly in some time periods while they are more stable in others? • Why do production and employment expand in some years and contract in others? ...
Second Midterm Monday/Wednesday Lecture
... 4. (5 points) Define the term “efficiency wage”. What are four reasons why paying an efficiency wage could raise a firm’s profits? An efficiency wage is a wage above the labor market equilibrium wage. Employers might pay an efficiency wage to reduce worker turnover; to raise worker effort levels by ...
... 4. (5 points) Define the term “efficiency wage”. What are four reasons why paying an efficiency wage could raise a firm’s profits? An efficiency wage is a wage above the labor market equilibrium wage. Employers might pay an efficiency wage to reduce worker turnover; to raise worker effort levels by ...
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... The economy’s automatic adjustment mechanism converts these shocks into cyclical fluctuations in real GDP. Because of the significant lags in the economy’s responses to these shocks, changes in output are drawn out over substantial periods of time. ...
... The economy’s automatic adjustment mechanism converts these shocks into cyclical fluctuations in real GDP. Because of the significant lags in the economy’s responses to these shocks, changes in output are drawn out over substantial periods of time. ...
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... Increase the special minimum benefit so that someone who paid into Social Security for 30 years could retire at 62 or later and not be poor. ...
... Increase the special minimum benefit so that someone who paid into Social Security for 30 years could retire at 62 or later and not be poor. ...
Do We Have a “New” Macroeconomy
... experience today are still very close in structure and development to those analyzed in Burns and Mitchell (1946), or indeed in Juglar (1916). So we cannot anticipate that any technological revolution would overthrow all of macroeconomics. The new macroeconomy will be like the old in structure, with ...
... experience today are still very close in structure and development to those analyzed in Burns and Mitchell (1946), or indeed in Juglar (1916). So we cannot anticipate that any technological revolution would overthrow all of macroeconomics. The new macroeconomy will be like the old in structure, with ...
research paper series Cumulative Causation, Capital Mobility and the Welfare State
... counters the conventional wisdom according to which (1) welfare states, by distorting firms’ costs, hinder successful competition in world markets, and (2) economic integration reduces national governments’ ability to independently shape their policies. In particular, the credible threat of relocati ...
... counters the conventional wisdom according to which (1) welfare states, by distorting firms’ costs, hinder successful competition in world markets, and (2) economic integration reduces national governments’ ability to independently shape their policies. In particular, the credible threat of relocati ...