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capital is maintained. Roefie Hueting defined in 1969 environmental functions (state, stock) as the possible uses by humans of …
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This paper looks at productivity growth rates in Malta and Cyprus and proposes policies as to how these island states countries might augment their productivity and competitiveness. We identify three possible growth strategies for the islands: an Innovation-Oriented Economy, a Controlled...
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A SAM (Social Accounting Matrix) can be an important tool for measuring a society’s activity, underlying which there are systems that can be worked upon in different ways. This tool will be presented as an alternative support for those who intervene in the policymaking process, which can be...
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The argument made in this manuscript is that the two traditional macroeconomic tools, fiscal policy and monetary policy, are insufficient to bring back efficiently into equilibrium an economy that has had a major crisis. Both traditional macro-tools only work through the demand side, and there...
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We examine the economic performance of Oman’s economy over the period from 1998 to 2016, where data are readily available. Our focus is on the performance of the non-hydrocarbon sector (NHC sector) relative to the hydrocarbon sector (HC sector), nominal versus real GDP growth, productivity...
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durables deteriorate exponentially, which implies that their replace-ment is proportional to the corresponding capital stocks … two-sector vintage capital model with exogenous technological change and endogenous use-ful lives. In the model … responsible for significant biases in the measurement of the economy-wide capital stock. …
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stable in Switzerland. However, this does not imply that the capital share of income has also remained stable. Our results … suggest that the share of imputed capital rental payments to income has decreased. Similar to other countries, Switzerland has … seen an increase in the so-called factorless income share that cannot be readily attributed to capital and labor. The …
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The objective in this paper is to highlight the complex linkages of capital input to potential output in the U … (BLS) over the period 1949-2016. By focusing on the changes in the composition of the capital stock in terms of structures … for their influence on the capital input and traces the latter’s effects on the potential output. It is found that: (a …
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Two alternative measures of demand adjusted capital input for the U.S. non-farm private business sector are derived and … capital input published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The results show that, allowing for the demand pressure on …, lastly, the long term trend of the growth rates with and without the demand adjustment to the capital input is sloping …
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This short note discusses the role of employer heterogeneity as a driver of growth and earnings inequality across the world. Policy implications are discussed.
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