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Bittencourt, Manoel (Springer, 2012)We test for the populist view of inflation in Latin America between 1970 and 2007. The empirical results -based on the relatively novel panel time-series data and analysis confirm the theoretical prediction that recently ...
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Determinants of government and external debt : evidence from the young democracies of South America Bittencourt, Manoel (Routledge, 2015-06)I investigate the main determinants of government and external debt in the young democracies of South America between 1970 and 2007. The results, based on dynamic panel time-series analysis, suggest that economic growth ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel; Chang, Shinhye; Gupta, Rangan; Miller, Stephen M. (Elsevier, 2019-11)This paper examines the role of financial development on U.S. state-level income inequality in the 50 states from 1976 to 2011, using fixed-effect estimation. We find robust results whereby financial development linearly ...
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Chisadza, Carolyn; Bittencourt, Manoel (Elsevier, 2019-06)Previous empirical literature focuses on income per capita as a measure for economic development. Using Lipset's modernization hypothesis as our theoretical framework, we contend that this measure does not capture the ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (Elsevier, 2012-03)In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more widespread access to finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries be- tween 1980 and 2007. The results, based on panel ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2010-06)In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more wide-spread access to finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1980 and 2007. The results, based on the ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (Springer, 2009)We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequality in Brazil in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. The evidence—based initially on time-series, and then on the relatively novel panel time-series data ...
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Simo-Kengne, Beatrice Desiree; Bittencourt, Manoel; Gupta, Rangan (American Real Estate Society, 2012-01)This paper empirically examines the effect of house price changes on economic growth across provinces in South Africa. The economic impact of house prices is estimated using a panel data set that covers all nine provinces ...
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Simo-Kengne, Beatrice Desiree; Gupta, Rangan; Bittencourt, Manoel (Routledge, 2013-06)This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role of house prices in determining the dynamic behaviour of consumption in South Africa using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) approach to provincial level panel data ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel; Van Eyden, Renee; Seleteng, Monaheng (Wiley, 2015-09)In this paper we investigate the role of inflation rates in determining economic growth in fifteen sub-Saharan African countries, which are all members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), between 1980 and ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2010-04)In this paper we investigate the role of poor macroeconomic performance, in terms of high rates of inflation, in determining economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1970 and 2007. The empirical results, ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (Elsevier, 2012)In this paper we investigate the role of macroeconomic performance, mainly in terms of rates of inflation, in determining economic growth in four Latin American countries which suffered hyperinflationary bursts in the ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (Elsevier, 2011-01)We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil, and the data available permit us to cover the period between 1985 and 2004. The results — based initially on time series and then on panel time series ...
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Seleteng, Monaheng; Bittencourt, Manoel; Van Eyden, Renee (Elsevier, 2013-01)The main objective of central banks around the world is the achievement and maintenance of price stability, which actually creates an environment conducive for faster economic growth. Therefore, it is important for policy ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2009-09)We test for the populist view of state capture in Latin America between 1970 and 2003. The empirical results based on the relatively novel panel time-series data and analysis confirm the prediction that recently-elected ...
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Walters, Leone; Bittencourt, Manoel; Chisadza, Carolyn (Wiley, 2023-01)Does coethnicity with the President affect public infrastructure provision in South Africa? Using municipal-level data for 52 district municipalities from 1996 to 2016, we find that municipalities coethnic with the President ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel; Gupta, Rangan; Makena, Philton; Stander, Lardo (Elsevier, 2022-12)We develop an overlapping generations (OLG) monetary endogenous growth model characterized by socio-political instability, with the latter being specified as a fraction of output lost due to strikes, riots and protests. ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel; Gupta, Rangan; Stander, Lardo (Elsevier, 2014-04)Using a standard overlapping generations monetary production economy, faced with endogenously determined tax evasion by heterogeneous agents in the economy, we provide a theoretical model that indicates that both a lower ...
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Bittencourt, Manoel (Routledge, 2019)I test the hypothesis that when democracies are young, or still fragile and unconsolidated, government debt tends to increase, presumably because of increased demand for redistribution, or to buy out the electorate, so ...
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