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In this paper, we develop an overlapping generations model where fertility is endogenous. The utility of the parents is a function of the number of their children, and each child implies two types of fixed costs: the financial cost and the cost in terms of time. A "pay-as-you-go" pension scheme...
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In this paper we present a model of economic growth where agents are characterized by social status concern behaviour. With respect to the literature, we show that social status seeking is not always desirable for economic growth. Specially, we prove that the impact of status seeking on growth...
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This paper investigates the estimation of productivity and preference shocks using a DSGE model. In the absence of government and international trade, this simplified framework provides a clear view of the internal dynamics of a closed economy. We analyze the impact of these shocks on...
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The current financial and economic crisis is not du to the Dollar paradox. That's why the growing "Global Imbalances" remains an interesting issue. By mixing theories from the litterature of Foreign Direct Investment in China and the Collateral theory developped in [Dooley, Folkerts-Landau,...
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Les comptes nationaux ont été, pendant longtemps, l’une des préoccupations majeures dans la production de statistiques économiques au sein de l’administration publique sénégalaise. Les travaux de la comptabilité nationale s’intéressent beaucoup à la production statistique des...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the behavior and performance of migrants in the presence of an uncertain purchasing power parity.We show , in particular, that the impact of the probability of return remains ambiguous regarding both the savings and labor supply of the migrants , this...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the behavior and the performance of migrants in the presence of an uncertain purchasing power parity.We show , in particular, that the impact of the probability of return remains ambiguous regarding both the savings and labor supply of the migrants , this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015232033
This paper investigates the short-run and long-run relationships between four main Algerian macroeconomic variables, the investment of oil revenues, economic growth, unemployment rate, inflation rate, using the Johansen multivariate cointegration techniques as well as VAR model for the period...
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Based on the social accounting matrix of the Tunisian economy, this study provides an analytical framework for analyzing the impact of sectoral economic policies on job creation. The aim is to identify some strategic axes for public policies. The analytical framework is built on a Walrassian...
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The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of household access to credit from tontines in Cameroon. We use a univariate probit model on a sample of households from the fourth Cameroonian household survey (ECAM IV) collected by the National Institute of Statistics in 2014. Thus,...
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