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Government Solvency, Austerity and Fiscal Consolidation in the OECD: A Keynesian Appraisal of Transversality and No Ponzi Game Conditions

Azizi, Karim; Canry, Nicolas; Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; … - 2013

This paper investigates the relevance of the No-Ponzi game condition for public debt (i.e. the public debt growth rate … condition for the GDP growth rate (i.e. the GDP growth rate has to be lower than the real interest rate). First, on the … than the GDP growth, it corresponds to 75% of the cases of the increases of the debt/GDP ratio but to only 43% of the cases …

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Catching The Drivers of Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Application of Machine Learning

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi - 2021

and predicting inclusive growth. To address this, I train the machine learning algorithms for the Standard lasso, the … comprising 97 covariates of inclusive growth for 43 SSA countries. First, the regularization results show that only 13 variables … are key for driving inclusive growth in SSA. Further, the results show that out of the 13, the poverty headcount (US$1 …

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Systemic Fear, Modern Finance and the Future of Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2010

Existing theories of political economy, liberal as well as Marxist, see capital as a dual entity. According to these theories, the "real" essence of capital consists of material/productive commodities, while the "financial" appearance of capital either accurately mirrors or fictitiously distorts...

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Yield curve modelling and a conceptual framework for estimating yield curves : evidence from the European Central Bank's yield curves

Nymand-Andersen, Per - 2018

The European Central Bank (ECB), as part of its forward-looking strategy, needs high-quality financial market statistical indicators as a means to facilitate evidence-based and sound decision-making. Such indicators include timely market intelligence and information to gauge investors'...

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Disentangling euro area portfolios : new evidence on cross-border securities holdings

Rousová, Linda; Rodríguez Caloca, Antonio - 2018

This paper presents a detailed set of new, quantity-based indicators of financial integration in the euro area. The indicators are based on granular data from securities holdings statistics and help us disentangle the main drivers of the portfolio changes observed since the financial crisis....

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Israel's Global Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2004

The flaring up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s caught most experts by surprise. The 1990s euphoria of the Oslo ‘peace process’ suddenly dissipated, replaced by a second intifada; the newspeak of ‘peace dividends’ gave way to debates about ‘imperialism’; and instead...

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New Economy or Transnational Ownership? The Global Political Economy of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

An analysis of the political economy of Israel during the 1990s.

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Global Accumulation and the New Middle East Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

The unravelling of the Middle-East peace process continues to baffle the pundits. The early optimism of the Oslo peace accord has now turned into despair. Prime minister Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist. The Palestinians have embarked on a new Intifada. And Israel has re-occupied...

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The End of Neoliberalism?

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2003

This article was commissioned by the French newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper was one of several sponsors of an International Conference on Global Regulation, held at the University of Sussex on May 29-31, 2003, where we presented a plenary paper. As part of its sponsorship, Le Monde agreed to...

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New Imperialism or New Capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2004

Over the past century, the institution of 'capital' and the process of its 'accumulation' have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this mimeograph is to address this mismatch. Using a...

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