Agent-Based Model with Capital and Credit (hereafter CC-MABM). The novelty of this model with respect to the previous … framework consists in the introduction of capital goods that firms producing consumption goods (C-firms) purchase from capital … goods producers (K-firms). The introduction of durability (in the form of capital which depreciates gradually) has important …

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical … this framework aging increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Therefore, there will be more labor …- and less capital-saving technical change. Unless there are contemporaneous knowledge spillovers across innovating firms …

transfers over this period is taken into account. We show that the increase in capital's share of total income and the presence … of capital-entrepreneurial skill complementarity are two key features that help support the wages of ordinary workers as … the new technology diffuses. -- income inequality ; skill-biased technological change ; capital-skill complementarity …

This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a … repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three heterogenous countries with respect to their capital … harmonization is sustainable or not crucially depends on the capital endowment of the median country relative to those of the large …

Large and sustained differences in marginal products of capital (MPKs) across countries are sharply at odds with the … substantially affected by adjustment costs in the accumulation of capital. With the proper technology and a plausible … parameterization of adjustment costs, the MPK in poor countries is much higher than the MPK in rich countries. Why capital flows do not …