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The traditional argument against the relevance of sector-specific shocks for the aggregate phenomenon of business cycles invokes the law of large numbers: positive shocks in some sectors are offset by negative shocks in other sectors. This paper hypothesizes that cancellation of sector-specific...
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This paper investigates the claim that real business cycle models perform poorly in matching real-world aggregate labor market behavior because observed real wage payments do not correspond to the actual marginal productivity of labor but contain an insurance component not accounted for by the...
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In “Eldred and Fair Use,” Posner comments that awarding a monopoly over Mickey Mouse avoids the congestion problem that occurs with open access highways. Is the public domain a commons like an open access highway? No, it is not.
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This paper provides a turnpike-like theorem for multidimensional, optimal-growth models, which holds for evey level of the discount factor. It is shown that when the short-run return fu nction of the reduced-form model satisfies a certain sufficient condi tion, then the resulting dynamics is of...
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