Progress in economics research. Volume 15 /

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Other Authors: Tavidze, Albert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2010.
Series:Progress in economics research.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • PROGRESS IN ECONOMICS RESEARCH, VOLUME 15 ; PROGRESS IN ECONOMICS RESEARCH, VOLUME 15; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; FROM CONFLICT TO PEACE:THE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodological Framework for the Empirical Analysis:Model, Chronology of States, and Data; 2.1. A Simple Approach to Modeling the Transitions from War to Peace andfrom Peace to War; 2.2. Peace and Post-conflict ; 2.3. A Chronology of States for African Countries; 2.3.1. Countries at Civil War; 2.3.2. The Chronology of War, Peace, and Post-Conflict; 2.4. Fiscal Variables; 2.4.1. The Size and Scope of Government.
  • 2.4.2. Revenues2.4.3. Fiscal StabilityaAnd Budget Balances; 2.4.4. Sources and Availability; 2.5. Analysis And Results; 2.6. The Average Behavior of Fiscal Policy in Different States; 2.7. A Ranking of Fiscal Policy Differences by Pair Of States ; 2.8. Focus on Post-Conflict: How Fiscal Policy Variables Differ betweenSuccess and Non-Success; 2.9. Looking beyond Averages: Fiscal Policy Dynamics in Successful andUnsuccessful Post-Conflict Transitions; 2.10. Characterizing the Dynamics of Fiscal Policy in the Sample ofSuccessful Post-Conflict Episodes.
  • 2.11. Comparing the Dynamics of Success and Non-success3. Conclusions; Appendix: Fiscal Variables Used in the Empirical Analysis; References; REPRESENTATIVE ECONOMIC AGENT AND ASSETDEMAND REVISITED; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Review of the Literature; 3. Microfoundations of Aggregate Asset Demand; 4. Restricted and Unrestricted Models of Asset Demand; 4.1. Restricted Structural Model; 4.2. Restricted Reduced-Form Model; 4.3. Unrestricted Reduced-Form Model; 5. Data Sources and Definitions of Dependent and IndependentVariables; 5.1. Data Sources.
  • 5.2. Definitions and Measurements of Dependent and Independent Variables6. Regression Results; 6.1. Estimation Methods; 6.1.1. Restricted Models of Broad Money, Interest-Bearing Monetary Assets, andNarrow Money: 2SLS Results; 6.1.2. Stability of Unrestricted Demand for Broad Mone.y: 2SLS Results; 6.1.3. Stability of Unrestricted Demand for Interest-Earning Monetary Assets:2SLS Results; 6.1.4. Stability of the Demand for Narrow Money: 2SLS Results; 6.2.1. OLS Results for the Restricted Models of Money Demand; 6.2.2. OLS Results for Unrestricted Demand for Broad Money.
  • 6.2.3. OLS Results for Unrestricted Demand for Interest-Earning Monetary Assets6.2.4. OLS Results for Unrestricted Demand for Narrow Money; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Sources of Income; References; HOW MAY INTERNATIONAL TRADE AFFECTPOVERTY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY SETUP? THEINEQUALITY CHANNEL; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. International Trade and Inequality:Why the Debate is Important?; 3. International Trade and Uneven Development: A Spiral; 4. Inequality as an Outcome of Education Policy; 5. Trade Inequality Inter-Linkages and the Heterogenic South; 5.1. Protection Effect.