Browsing Scientific articles by Journals "Economics Letters"

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    • Consumption with liquidity constraints: An analytical characterization 

      Holm, Martin Blomhoff (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      How do liquidity constraints affect households? This is a well-researched subject with remarkably few theoretical results. This paper bridges this gap by providing a closed form expression for consumption with liquidity ...

    • Group lending with endogenous group size 

      Bourjade, Sylvain; Schindele, Ibolya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper focuses on the size of the borrower group in group lending. We show that, when social ties in a community enhance borrowers incentives to exert e¤ort, a pro t-maximizing nancier chooses a group of limited size. ...

    • The effect of the Internet on economic growth: Counter-evidence from cross-country panel data 

      Maurseth, Per Botolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Choi and Yi (2009) found evidence that the Internet stimulated economic growth in the 1990–2000 period using cross-country panel data. When extending the period to 2015, similar regressions indicate negative and significant ...

    • Using house prices to compute the price of housing in the CPI 

      Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Røed Larsen, Erling; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Rental-equivalence is often used in computing price changes of owner-occupied housing in the CPI. We employ an alternative approach, employing interest-adjusted house prices. For Norway 2000-2008 our method yielded a 30% ...