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Housing and housing finance : a review of the links to economic development and poverty reduction
Doling, John; Vandenberg, Paul; Tolentino, Jade - 2013
, constituting the most valuable asset owned by most households and often requiring housing finance (mortgages) to allow for purchase …The paper provides a review of the literature that links housing, housing finance, and economic development. The …. These links - between housing and the economy and between housing and housing finance - are explored in this review paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781135
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The reversal of the relation between economic growth and health progress: Sweden in the 19th and 20th centuries
Tapia Granados, José A.; Ionides, Edward L. - 2007
Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usuallyconceived as related to economic growth, especially in the long run. In this investigation it is shown thateconomic growth is positively associated with health progress in Sweden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476720
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Patent Policy, R&D and Economic Growth.
Chu, Chi Ho Angus - 2008
The literature on R&D-driven economic growth suggests that technological innovations result from entrepreneurial activities such as R&D investments. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, I develop tractable frameworks to characterize and quantitatively evaluate the effects of patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476911
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Canada; Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
Canada has experienced drastic changes in its economy during the global financial crisis. This Selected Issues paper discusses the evolution of equilibrium real home prices in key Canadian provinces in the post-crisis period, Canadian dollar movement during and after the global financial turmoil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242764
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Canada; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This Selected Issues paper on Canada examines economic development and policies. Capital ratios before the crisis have been a key determinant of bank performance during the turmoil; and Canadian banks had ample capital. Specifically, most banks with critically low capital at end-2006 later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244253
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Norway; 2011 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Norway
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Norway’s near-term macroeconomic priority is to reduce risks arising from high-household debt by tightening macroprudential standards for mortgage lending while undertaking tax reforms to gradually reduce incentives for excessive leverage. Creating a stronger institutional framework for...
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The recovery and monetary policy
Dudley, William C. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012
Remarks at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Meeting, New York City.
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The recovery and monetary policy
Dudley, William C. - In: Speech (2012) Oct 15
Remarks at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Meeting, New York City.
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Mortgage Market Development, Savings, and Growth
Li, Xiaowei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
Jappelli and Pagano (1994) argues that tightening the borrowing constraints in the mortgage markets promotes savings. Employing a six-period overlapping generations model with endogenous growth and a method of simulation calibrated on the Middle East, this paper demonstrates that the above...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263983
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Wages, economic development and the customary standard of life
Wilkinson, Frank - In: Cambridge journal of economics 36 (2012) 6, pp. 1497-1534
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