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Explaining Investment in the WAEMU

This paper estimates an empirical model for investment in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), a region with relatively low investment shares, using annual data for the period 1970-95. Cross-country and time-series evidence shows that openness to international trade, competition in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vamvakidis, Athanasios
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1998
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: Infrastructures
Inflation
Investment
Public Investment Spending
Finance
Econometric Analysis
Public Finance & Taxation
Deflation
Proportions
Logit Models
Currency
Competition
Other Public Investment And Capital Stock
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement And Data)
Intangible Capital
Discrete Regression And Qualitative Choice Models
Expenditure
Price Level
Foreign Exchange
Financial Markets
Econometric Models
Prices
Macroeconomics
Real Exchange Rates
Public Investments
Capacity
Econometrics
Capital
Econometrics & Economic Statistics
Public Finance
Finance: General
Discrete Regressors
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This paper estimates an empirical model for investment in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), a region with relatively low investment shares, using annual data for the period 1970-95. Cross-country and time-series evidence shows that openness to international trade, competition in the domestic market, freedom of international capital transactions, and low dependency ratios are positively correlated with investment in the WAEMU region
Physical Description:23 pages
ISBN:9781451852240

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