Relative role of external debt, FDI, and domestic investment in economic growth: evidence from Sri LankaInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies - Tập 15 - Trang 329-347 - 2021
Biswajit Maitra
External financial capital is inevitable for economic growth and the development of developing countries. In the case of Sri Lanka, some recent studies prove that the growing accumulation of external debt is detrimental to growth. Besides, the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) is not enough and limited to a few sectors of the economy. The accumulation of domestic capital is sluggish. Under...... hiện toàn bộ
Ownership structure of nuclear power plants for fair competition and efficiency: private low-cost access versus public ownershipInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies - Tập 17 - Trang 307-330 - 2022
Yusuke Ikuta, Takashi Yanagawa
When the retail electricity market is liberalized, the incumbent firm has cost advantage over new entrants. This situation harms fair competition. To level the playing field, the entrant should also have access to low-cost generation. In this paper, we study how to utilize cost advantageous plant which is unevenly distributed in the context of electricity industry. We compare two scenarios. In the...... hiện toàn bộ
An Economic Analysis of the Waste and Recycling Policy of Japan and TaiwanInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies - - 2008
Akaishi, Hideyuki
Over the past two decades, waste generation has increased at a rate similar to economic advances and caused serious environmental problems in many industrialized countries. These problems include the shortage of landfill sites, harmful substances from waste incineration facilities, and environmental risks such as air, water, and soil contamination from landfill sites and illegal dumping. In order ...... hiện toàn bộ
Access to Bank Credit by Agricultural Producers in Kazakhstan: A Micro-Econometric AnalysisInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies - Tập 5 - Trang 33-48 - 2010
Sholpan Gaisina
The Republic of Kazakhstan is a Central Asian country that was formerly a republic of the Soviet Union. Kazakhstan is significantly different from other Central Asian countries. It is relatively large but with a low population: about 5.7 people per square km. Agricultural financing is a major aspect of economic reform in Kazakhstan. The issue is - What kind of financial resources are necessary to ...... hiện toàn bộ
On the Dynamic of Stock Market Integration: A Minimum Spanning Tree AnalysisInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies - Tập 6 - Trang 43-68 - 2011
Kusdhianto Setiawan
Stock market integration is investigated using the minimum spanning tree (MST) technique, a technique that finds minimum total distance of edges that connect vertices (markets). The distance measure is a transformed variable of cross-correlation coefficients among the market returns or indexes. Prior studies have shown that financial openness led to financial market integration and encouraged fore...... hiện toàn bộ
Does poverty deter foreign direct investment flows to developing countries?International Journal of Economic Policy Studies - Tập 16 - Trang 297-330 - 2022
Sèna Kimm Gnangnon
The present paper investigates the effect of poverty on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in developing countries. It complements the important extant literature on the effect of FDI inflows on poverty by examining the issue the other way around. The analysis is conducted using a sample of 117 countries over the period 1980–2017, and the two-step system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) te...... hiện toàn bộ
Public debt and income inequality in an endogenous growth model with elastic labor supplyInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies - Tập 17 - Trang 447-472 - 2023
Daisuke Miyashita
In this study, we examine the relationships among long-run public debt policy, economic growth, and income inequality by extending a representative consumer theory of distribution and using an endogenous growth model with a sustainable fiscal rule, elastic labor supply, and initial endowment of heterogeneous wealth. We show that fiscal policy with strict (loose) budgetary discipline decreases (inc...... hiện toàn bộ
Financial incentives for exercise and medical care costsInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies - Tập 17 - Trang 95-116 - 2022
Kazuki Kamimura, Shohei Okamoto, Kenichi Shiraishi, Kazuto Sumita, Kohei Komamura, Akiko Tsukao, Shinya Kuno
Physical inactivity has become a public health priority in many developed countries to address large disease burdens from noncommunicable diseases and the associated financial costs. Policymakers are interested in incentive programs that use behavioral science insights to address the lack of exercise in citizens. However, as considerable resources are required for incentive payments and administra...... hiện toàn bộ