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impact on a government's decisions on how to allocate government expenditure between public consumption and investment. Using …
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intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the production process. In light of the growing significance of skilled labor for … fostering the return to physical capital, elites in society were induced to relinquish their historically profitable coercion of … labor in favor of employing free skilled workers, thereby incentivizing the masses to engage in broad-based human capital …
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An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical … this framework aging increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Therefore, there will be more labor …- and less capital-saving technical change. Unless there are contemporaneous knowledge spillovers across innovating firms …
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that results from the decline in the price of capital due to higher government debt. …
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We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost … standard two-sector real-business cycle model with habit formation and sector-specific adjustment costs of capital. The model …
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The idea that certain economic variables are roughly constant in the long-run is an old one. Kaldor described them as stylized facts, whereas Klein and Kosobud labelled them great ratios. While such ratios are widely adopted in theoretical models in economics as conditions for balanced growth,...
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This short paper reconsiders the popular result that the lower the probability of getting reelected, the stronger the incumbent politicians incentive to follow short-sighted, inefficient policies. The set-up is a general equilibrium model of endogenous growth and optimal fiscal policy, in which...
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, unanticipated delays in the provision of public capital generate too much consumption and too little private investment relative to … public infrastructure in the context of a growing economy. Our results indicate that uncertainty about the arrival of public … capital can more than offset its positive spillovers for private-sector productivity. In a decentralized economy …
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In this empirical study we assess both linear and nonlinear relationship between total taxation and several tax items with real per capita GDP growth rates for 43 developing countries between 1990 and 2019. We use panel data techniques to evaluate the effects of taxation on economic growth for...
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We incorporate Keeping-up-with-the-Joneses (KUJ) preferences into the Blanchard-Yaari (BY) framework and develop, using an AK technology, a model of balanced growth. In this context we investigate status preference, demographic, and pension policy shocks. We find that a higher degree of KUJ...
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