with each passing year. As the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development explains, The empirical growth literature has developed substantially over the past two decades, drawing on larger and richer databases and exploiting better econometric tools to explain cross the country differences in growth performance Isolating the precise effects of one type of government policy-such as government spending-on aggregate economic performance is probably impossible. Moreover, the relationship
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Firstly, the econometric nature of the definition emphasizes only on the role of the market and its relationship with the push and pull factor of trafficking. Secondly, this definition associates trafficking in human beings with only the visible problems such as forced
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SERIES IZA DP No. 6057 PAPER The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD P.N. (Raja) Junankar DISCUSSION October 2011 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD P.N. (Raja) Junankar University of New South Wales, University of Western Sydney and IZA Discussion Paper No. 6057 October 2011 IZA P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone: +49-228-3894-0 Fax: +49-228-3894-180
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Crisis Period Forecast Evaluation of the DCC-GARCH Model Yang Ding Andrew Schwert Dr. Emma Rasiel & Professor Aino Levonmaa, Faculty Advisors Honors thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Graduation with Distinction in Economics in Trinity College of Duke University Duke University Durham, North Carolina 2010 Acknowledgements We would like to thank Dr. Emma Rasiel and Professor Aino Levonmaa for their invaluable direction, patience, and guidance throughout
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Relationship Between Exchange Rate and Stock Prices in India – An Empirical Analysis By Golaka C Nath* and G P Samanta** Abstract: The dynamic linkage between exchange rate and stock prices has been subjected to extensive research for over a decade and attracted considerable attention from researchers worldwide during the Asian crisis of 1997-98. The issue is also important from the viewpoint of recent large cross-boarder movement of funds. In India the issue is also gaining importance in the liberalization
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COURSE TITLE : ADVANCED MACRO ECONOMICS COURSE CODE : ECN 703 REG NO: 15491119 NAME: GODWIN OMAGU QUESTION: Given the 'Rational Expectations Theory' a short run tradeoff between the price level and unemployment can only exist if the economy agent can distinguish arbitrary from real shock. Discuss Rational Expectations Theory What is the 'Rational Expectations Theory' The rational expectations theory is an economic idea that the people in the economy make choices based on their rational
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The Truth About Taxes and Economic Growth MORE TAX CUTS? The Truth About Taxes and Economic Growth Interview with Joel Slemrod Judging by the political scene in Washington, one would think that low taxes were the main source of economic growth in the United States and around the world. Even most Democrats dare not demand that President Bush’s tax cuts be rescinded. But this leading tax expert, a political centrist, argues that there is no compelling evidence that high taxes impede economic
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Entry into the Coffee Shop Market – Starbucks establishes in Gothenburg The demand and supply of the domestic coffee shop market Ylva Bruzelius & Hanna Johansson 2012-01-25 Fall semester of 2011 Supervisor: Lennart Hjalmarsson Master Thesis in Economics – Industrial Economics (15 hp) The Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law Table of contents Acknowledgements .................................................................................................
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Unemployment and crime: New evidence for an old question Kerry L. Papps Victoria University of Wellington Rainer Winkelmann* IZA and Centre for Economic Policy Research, London December 1999 This paper uses panel data techniques to examine the relationship between unemployment and a range of categories of crime in New Zealand. The data cover sixteen regions over the period 1984 to 1996. Random and fixed effects models are estimated to investigate the possibility of a causal relationship
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Michael Trusov, Randolph E. Bucklin, & Koen Pauwels Effects of Word-of-Mouth Versus Traditional Marketing: Findings from an Internet Social Networking Site The authors study the effect of word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing on member growth at an Internet social networking site and compare it with traditional marketing vehicles. Because social network sites record the electronic invitations from existing members, outbound WOM can be precisely tracked. Along with traditional marketing, WOM can then
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