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We study optimal sustainable policies in a benchmark logistic world (where both population and technological progress follow logistic laws of motion) subject to a pollution ceiling. The main policy in the hands of the benevolent planner is pollution abatement, ultimately leading to the control...
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We construct a two-sector vintage capital model with neutral and investment-specific technical progress and variable utilization of each vintage. The lifetime of capital goods is endogenous and it relies on the associated maintenance costs. First, we show that the lifetime of capital is an...
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We study an optimal growth model with one-hoss-shay vintage capital, where labor resources can be allocated freely either to production, technology adoption or capital maintenance. Technological progress is partly embodied. Adoption labor increases the level of embodied technical progress....
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This paper studies technology adoption in an optimal growth model with embodied technical change. The economy consists of the final good sector, the capital sector, and the technology sector which role is the imitation of exogenous innovations. Scarce labor resources are allocated to the...
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This paper examines the stationary equilibrium situation and the dynamic behavior of the main control variables of an economy where investment is subject to adjustment costs and the maintenance of deteriorated capital goods is considered expensive. The optimal intertemporal resources allocation...
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This paper presents the private capital stock estimates for the 17 Spanish regions, for the 1964-1989 period and for the agriculture, industry, building and service sectors. The Perpetual Inventory Method, used in nearly all OCDE countries, is applied to this estimation, entailing a previous...
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the effect of mobbing in workers’ health. Design/methodology/approach – Using a dataset of Spanish workers from the VI Spanish Survey on Working Conditions, the authors identify mobbed and not mobbed workers and use two different health...
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