imports ch eaper, thereby easing inflation. This paper is organized as follows: Section II briefly describes th e institutional background and summarizes stylized facts about the Kenya n monetary economy; Sect ion III presents the econometric framework and discusses the result s and interpretations; Section IV concludes with policy implications and caveats. The append ix presents a robustness exercise for the analysis in Section III. II. I NSTITUTIONAL B ACKGROUND AND
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ECON3007 Economic Policy Analysis Topic: Institutions and Economic Reforms Wendy Carlin This topic focuses on the role of institutions in economic growth and the implications of this for the design of economic reforms. We examine why some large-scale economic reforms have been surprisingly successful and others have been disappointing. It will be argued that the consistency between existing institutions in the economy and the reforms is an important factor in determining reform success. We
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Managerial Economics Analysis of the factors influencing the quantity imported of common wheat Contents Introduction 3 Literature revue 3 Panos Konandreas, Peter Bushnell and Richard Green (1978) 4 Won W. Koo (1984) 5 Daniela Kopp and Iain Wallace (1990) 6 Franqois Ortalo-Magne and Barry K. Goodwin (1990) 7 William W. Wilson (1994) 10 James N. Barnes and Dennis A. Shields (1998)
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GA—2009 BA, Economics, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, Atlanta, GA —2009 Enrolled and completed the dual degree program Relevant coursework includes: Advanced Business Finance… Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomics… Debt and Money Market… Econometric… Investment Strategies… International Economics… Financial and Managerial Accounting… Calculus I and II (derivatives and integrals) … Intermediate Financial Accounting… Business Policy and Strategic Management… Thesis: Transportation Economics
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In statistics, a collection of random variables is heteroscedastic (often spelled heteroskedastic,[1] and commonly pronounced with a hard k regardless of spelling) if there are sub-populations that have different variabilities from others. Here "variability" could be quantified by the variance or any other measure of statistical dispersion. Thus heteroscedasticity is the absence of homoscedasticity. The possible existence of heteroscedasticity is a major concern in the application of regression
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International Journal of Economics, Business and Finance Vol. 1, No. 11, December 2013, PP: 431- 446, ISSN: 2327-8188 (Online) Available online at http://ijebf.com/ Research article Determinants of Loan Repayment Performance of Smallholder Farmers: The Case of Kalu District, South Wollo Zone, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia Zelalem Gebeyehu1*, Hassen Beshire1 and Jema Haji2 1 Department of Economics, Wollo University, P.O Box. 1145, Dessie, Ethiopia. * Corresponding author Email: zelalemgebeyehu1936@gmail
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responsibility more narrowly construed.[4] Proponents argue that corporations increase long term profits by operating with a CSR perspective, while critics argue that CSR distracts from business' economic role. A 2000 study compared existing econometric studies of the relationship between social and financial performance, concluding that the contradictory results of previous studies reporting positive, negative, and neutral financial impact, were due to flawed empirical analysis and claimed when
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Governance; Industrial Relations; and emerging paradigms in allied subjects like Accounting; Accounting Information Systems; Accounting Theory & Practice; Auditing; Behavioral Accounting; Behavioral Economics; Corporate Finance; Cost Accounting; Econometrics; Economic Development; Economic History; Financial Institutions & Markets; Financial Services; Fiscal Policy; Government & Non Profit Accounting; Industrial Organization; International Economics & Trade; International Finance; Macro Economics;
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Financial Liberalisation and Price Stability in Kenya[1] Anders Isaksson Department of Economics, Göteborg University Box 640 S-405 30, Göteborg, Sweden. Abstract It has been postulated in the literature that attempts to liberalise the financial sector when inflation is high can lead to high interest rates and even higher inflation. Thereafter. when inflation is fought, a period of low inflation and high real interest rates follow. Since Kenya experienced this sequence, it appears that prices
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DOES MONETARY POLICY INFLUENCE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PAKISTAN? Haji Saif Ullah (Author) Email: hajisaif@live.com Muhammad Ashraf (coordinator) Department of Management Sciences University Of Gujrat, Gujrat ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of monetary policy on economic growth in Pakistan. The study uses time-series data covering the range of 1991 to 2011.The effects of stochastic shocks of each of the endogenous variables are explored using Error Correction Model (ECM). The study
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