Stock Market and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis for Germany Adamopoulos Antonios Department of Applied Informatics‚ University of Macedonia‚ Thessaloniki‚ Macedonia‚ Greece Correspondence to: Adamopoulos Antonios‚ adamant@uom.gr Published online: April 15‚ 2010 Abstract This paper investigates the causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth for Germany for the period 1965-2007 using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). The purpose of this paper was to
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Question Number 1 1. Strategic Priority 1: Economic Growth and Job Creation. 2. Strategic Priority 2: Massive programme to build economic and social infrastructure. 3. Strategic Priority 3: Rural Development 4. Strategic Priority 4: Education 5. Strategic Priority 5: Health Question Number 2 * Priority 1- Factors beyond the control of policy-makers and stakeholders in South Africa have a big impact on the environment for growth and job creation‚ and it is difficult to measure achievements
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How is public debt related to economic growth and unemployment? In this project different economics variables will be compared with each other to see if any correlations between them exist to perhaps explain certain trends and changes in the variables. The three focused on in this report are GDP growth‚ Government Debt and Budget surplus/deficit. There is a huge standard deviation in the data given for GDP. In both 2009 and 2010 the standard deviation was over four and a half times larger than
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Chapter 1 1. Introduction Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been recognized as an important resource for economic development. Many people argue that the flows of FDI could fill the gap between desired investments and domestically mobilized saving. In recent decades under the changing modes of international transactions and cross-border mobilization of production factors‚ foreign direct investment (FDI) attracted great attention not only in developing countries but also in developed countries
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GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA By KELECHI IYOKO. Abstract The concomitant unequal distribution of the benefits of Globalisation and the fear expressed by most developing countries about the negative impact of globalization‚ has made the question on the relationship between globalization (characterized by foreign direct investment‚ economy openness and net capital flows) and Economic Growth both in developed and developing countries lie at the heart
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Economic growth and public policy To increase productivity and living standards‚ governments can can: 1. Encourage saving and Investment: Goal: invest more current resources in the production of capital to increase physical capital (K). Trade-off: The opportunity cost of investment is that someone must forgo current : consumption in order to save and invest sumption Note that: because of diminishing returns‚ an increase in the saving rate leads to higher growth of productivity and income only
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DO LARGE POPULATION A KEY TO ECONOMIC PROGRESS Introduction: Thomas Malthus in his published book “An Essay on the Principle of Population” claimed that there is a tendency for the population growth rate to surpass the production growth rate because population increases at a geometrical rate while production increases at an arithmetic rate. Thus‚ the unfettered population growth in a country could plunge it into acute poverty. However‚ the pessimist view has proven unfounded for developed economies
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of economic growth‚ gradual decline of budget deficit‚ high rate of export and import growth‚ steady rise of foreign currency reserve at a satisfactory level are some of the major achievements that Bangladesh attained during the past few years until FY2007-2008. Success in achieving these significant milestones is largely attributable to a set of policies and reforms implemented in order to attain macroeconomic stability accompanied by acceleration of economic growth. With continued economic growth
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Population growth has its own effects on economic growth of a country‚ which can be negative or positive first we will look in to the negatively effecting factors of population growth: 1) Due to increase in Population Consumption Increases‚ which will decrease‚ GNP/GDP and Imports will increase and Exports Fall down Budget Defect is the result and the prices mount high. 2) Miss Use OR Over use of Natural Resources. Due to increase in population Man to Land Ratio decreases. As land is inelastic
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facing strong imbalances on a macroeconomic point of view‚ and that requires special policy actions in order to restore an economic balance in this country‚ currently struggling in an economic crisis. The main problems are the huge public debt held and the lack of external competitiveness. Both those problem are originally caused by the extremely slow economic productivity growth of the country. Given the fact that the Italian economy has a relatively important role in the European economy‚ it is urgent
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