Budget Deficits, National Saving, and Interest Rates William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag September 2004 Brookings Institution and Tax Policy Center. This paper was prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, September 9-10, 2004. We thank Emil Apostolov, Matt Hall, Brennan Kelly, and Melody Keung for outstanding research assistance; Alan Auerbach, William Brainard, Robert Cumby, Bill Dickens, Doug Elmendorf, Eric Engen, Laurence Kotlikoff, Thomas Laubach, Maria Perozek, George
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DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE MALAYSIAN MANUFACTURING SECTOR NOR AMIRA IZZATI BINTI MOHD IKHWAN 2011362629 NUR HASIDAH BINTI HUSSEIN 2011391659 BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (HONS) FINANCE FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA JOHOR. DECEMBER 2013 TITLE PAGE DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE MALAYSIAN MANUFACTURING SECTOR NOR AMIRA IZZATI BINTI MOHD IKHWAN 2011362629 NUR HASIDAH BINTI HUSSEIN 2011391659 Submitted
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The Federal Government’s Efforts to Improve the Economy Economic growth and employment are the basis for increased prosperity. Over the course of American history, there has been much debate regarding whether attaining that increased prosperity is (or is not) a direct reflection of imposed federal, state, and local tax policies. These tax policies are imposed for a variety of reasons, such as to reduce budget deficits, support war efforts, and strengthen the economy. It has become increasingly
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believer that an increase in aggregate demand can cause inflation, however there can also be other factors that can cause inflation. The term aggregate demand is that total planed expenditure in the economy. Known by the identity C+I+G+(X-m). In macroeconomics there are 2 types of inflation, demand-pull inflation and cost-push inflation. The demand-pull inflation is caused by an increase in total spending (aggregate demand), the economy is producing beyond the economy’s ability. The aggregate demand
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derivatives from each sector with respect to final demand from ∂x3 ∂x sector j. Determine and . ∂d2 ∂d4 Printed on September 6, 2014 Page 2 of 7 ECON864 Early Semester Quiz Question 2. (See Lecture Notes Week 3) Consider the following macroeconomic model. Commodity Market
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stance has been effective in achieving sustained levels of economic growth in the economy through countering the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and remaining globally competitive. The fiscal policy is a macroeconomic policy that influences resource allocation, redistributes income and plays an essential counter cyclic role to the business cycle through government spending, taxation and the budget outcome. This is achieved through manipulating government expenditure and tax collection in the
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ECONOMY OF INDIA The economy of India is the eleventh largest in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). The country is one of the G-20 major economies and a member of BRICS. On a per capita income basis, India ranked 140th by nominal GDP and129th by GDP (PPP) in 2011, according to the IMF. After the independence-era Indian economy (before and a little after 1947) was inspired by the Soviet model of economic development, with a large public
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productive sectors. Nonperforming loans (NPLs) refer to those financial assets from which banks no longer receive interest and/or installment payments as scheduled. They are known as non-performing because the loan ceases to “perform” or generate income for the bank. Choudhury et al. (2002: 21-54) state that the nonperforming loan is not a “uniclass” but rather a “multiclass” concept, which means that NPLs can be classified into different varieties usually based on the “length of overdue” of the
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countries growth policies are better delivered as full packages since fiscal and monetary policies are inextricable, except in terms of the instruments and implementing authorities. However, monetary policy appears more potent in correcting short term macroeconomic maladjustments because of the frequency in applying and altering the policy tools, relative ease of its decision process and the sheer nature of the sector which propagates its effect to the real economy – the financial system. The main objective
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Literature review reveals that considerable research has been made in the industrialized countries on the similar topic. Capital structure is one of the most complex areas of strategic financial decision making due to its interrelationship with macroeconomic variables. This study reveals that per capita GNP growth for Japan and Malaysia is significantly related to capital structure of firm and higher economic growth tends to cause to use more long term debt. These results for Pakistan are different
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