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are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities. … profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities …
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Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem shows that transitive social preference is impossible. This note shows that in the general case of exchange, social preference need not be transitive. Indeed, it shows that social preference must be non-transitive to allow gainful exchange to maximize social...
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indirect trade, money also must be used. Micro says that price is equal to marginal cost, rejecting trade theory’s claim that … trade is gainful. To remove these and other contradictions, price theory must be repaired. Money’s role in market clearing …
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This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
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future consumption and savings. . Although the motion of the consumer confidence index is of interest to both policymakers … consumption expenditure of Hungarian households. Our results suggest that, in addition to macro variables, the consumer confidence …
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periodically but make consumption decisions on a more frequent basis. The model incorporates price uncertainty and imperfect credit … markets. The simulated numerical solution to this model shows that weekly consumption functions are ordered such that the …
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This paper estimates a constant returns to scale agricultural production function of the three basic factors of production. Such a function is a useful tool for macroeconomic, growth, and development studies. It uses the shares approach that Solow used in 1957 and very disaggregated Canadian...
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have an incentive to signal that he is in great need by saving more than he otherwise would have done. …
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equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function …
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IV estimates of the link between profits and investment in the Czech Republic find a complex relationship. While firms …
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