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faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …
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the population induced productivity improvements and provision of optimal infrastructure in the region will form the two … transportation infrastructure on economic growth. The study argues that there is an optimal distribution of infrastructure in the … data for years 1961-2012 on India, the study examines the role of dense population and transportation infrastructure on …
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paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …
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acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
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productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …
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In this paper we reexamine the Feldstein-Horioka finding of limited international capital mobility by using a broader …
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estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its income tends to be overestimated. Consequently, international …
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Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the conventional way. A Ricardian general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous levels of asset ownership is developed to show that more equal asset distribution may contract...
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This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
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), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we …
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