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How economic, political and institutional factors influence the choice of exchange rate regimes? : new evidence from selected countries of the MENA region

Maraoui, Najia; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Khefacha, Islem; … - 2022

In this paper, we investigate how economic, political and institutional factors affect the choice of exchange rate regimes, using data on eight MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries over the 1984-2016 period. Specifically, we run random-effects ordered probit regressions of the...

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The role of the exchange rate regime in the process of real and nominal convergence

D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2013

During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...

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Distributional effects of monetary policy in emerging market economies

Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015

We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...

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Sterilization policy with incomplete information: Peru 1995-2000

Rendón, Sílvio - 2020

In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done providing adequate information to their users for a free decision about their adoption. I use data from ENDES/DHS 2000, which contains detailed information about contraceptive...

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Sterilization policy with incomplete information in Peru: does history repeat itself?

Jimènez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2020

We contrast the socio-demographic profiles and degree of information received by women that were sterilized with women that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru and compare these profiles with those of the 2000s,...

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A new model of wage determination and wage inequality

Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2008

. We use probability theory to derive initial results, including both distribution-independent and distribution …

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Fixed and mixed effects models in meta-analysis

Konstantopoulos, Spyros (contributor) - 2006

The last three decades the accumulation of quantitative research evidence has led to the development of systematic methods for combining information across samples of related studies. Although a few methods have been described for accumulating research evidence over time, meta-analysis is widely...

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A new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces

Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2007

This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories … characteristics, and primordial sociobehavioral outcomes. The unified theory posits the operation of three sociobehavioral forces … distinctive identity and a distinctive magnitude of happiness. Thus, the theory enables systematic and parsimonious analysis of …

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Additive decompositions with interaction effects

Biewen, Martin - 2012

This paper proposes a comprehensive, path-independent decomposition formula of changes into ceteris paribus effects and interaction effects. The formula implies a reassessment of sequential decomposition methods that are widely used in the literature and that are restrictive in how they treat...

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Linking individuals and societies

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

; deductive theory ; probability distributions ; lognormal distribution ; Pareto distribution ; power-function distribution …

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