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A framework for analyzing language and welfare

Melitz, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The paper proposes a general model that will encompass trade and social benefits of a common language, a preference for a variety of languages, the fundamental role of translators, an emotional attachment to maternal language, and the threat that globalization poses to the vast majority of...

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Equilibrium Welfare and Government Policy with Quasi-Geometric Discounting

Krusell, Per; Kuruscu, Burhanettin; Smith Jr., Anthony A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

. For this class, we characterize the welfare properties of competitive equilibria and compare them to that of a planning …-value utility subject to resource constraints. The competitive equilibrium results in strictly higher welfare than does the planning … tax rates on capital. These tax rates reproduce the central planning solution, and thus imply a worse outcome in welfare …

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Reform Without Losers: An Interpretation of China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition

Lau, Lawrence J; Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We develop a simple model to analyse the ‘dual-track’ approach to transition to a market economy as a mechanism for implementing efficient Pareto-improving economic reform, that is, reform achieving efficiency without creating losers. The approach, based on the continued enforcement of the...

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Indeterminacy in a Finance Constrained Unionized Economy

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

welfare if the marginal productivity of labour is decreasing in employment. …

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Arbitrage, Hedging and Financial Innovation

Davidson, Malcolm - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

I present a simple model in which it is possible that opening a new market makes everybody worse off. Unlike previous examples in the literature, the analysis does not rely on relative price changes of different consumption goods. This is shown in a standard framework in which uninformed traders...

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Hold-Up Problems and Firm Formation

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Agents from a homogeneous population organize themselves into productive partnerships and are confronted with a hold-up problem when making relation-specific investments in those partnerships. The problem is mitigated if agents can leave a partnership in which they have invested, bear the costs...

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Materialism on the March: From Conspicuous Leisure to Conspicuous Consumption?

Frijters, Paul; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

This paper inserts Veblen’s (1898) concepts of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption into a very simple model. Individuals have the choice to either invest their time into working, leading to easily observable levels of consumption, or into conspicuous leisure, whose effect on...

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On Income Inequality and Democracy: Theories and Findings in Search of a Viable Data Base.

Castles, F.G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and democracy and to assess the prospects of future research in the area.

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Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection

Spinnewijn, Johannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

heterogeneity, I find that the welfare conclusions regarding adversely selected markets are substantially different. The source of …

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Competition for attention in the information (overload) age

Anderson, Simon P; de Palma, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Limited consumer attention limits product market competition: prices are stochastically lower the more attention is paid. Ads compete to be the lowest price with other ads from the same sector and they compete for attention with ads from other sectors: equilibrium sector ad shares under free...

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