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trade affects the incentives for technological advancement. We construct an innovation-based endogenous growth model of … North-South trade. There are two types of innovation: one by the North to upgrade the general purpose technology (GPT) and … estimates where the effects of GPT-driven innovation are eliminated. The share of dynamic gains from trade is about 78% of the …
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This paper reports on the current status of the microeconomic research on labor supply behavior. The purpose is to direct attention to microeconomic research that may be helpful in the continuing evaluation of aggregate models designed to explain the dynamic behavior of wages, employment and...
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cycle analysis, the study of stabilization policies, and growth macro, as well as between international macroeconomics and …
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This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...
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David Laidler has been a major player in the development of the monetarist tradition. As the monetarist approach lost influence on policy makers he kept defending the importance of many of its principles. In this paper we survey and assess the impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on...
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The 1980s were both the lost decade of growth for much of Latin America and Africa, and the period in which -- through … the new growth theory -- macroeconomists returned to the study of growth and development. The new growth theory is … policy -- as reflected for instance in the rate of inflation and the budget deficit -- in determining growth. This paper …
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This paper surveys much of modern macroeconomics. The focus is on the core macroeconomic issue, of the reasons for macroeconomic fluctuations and sometimes persistent unemployment. To provide continuity and perspective on how promising research leads of the past turned out, the paper starts by...
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This paper analyzes the effects of an increase in the monetary growth rate within a dynamic optimizing macroeconomic … effects of an increase in the monetary growth rate are generally expansionary. With low interest deductibility, or if the tax …
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Macroeconomic development remains an important policy goal because of its ability to lift entire populations out of poverty. In our review of the literature, we emphasize that the best way to achieve this objective is to embrace a synthesis of methods and ideas, with the science of experiments...
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