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Capital/labor substitution, capital deepening, and FDI

Antony, Jürgen - 2007

Empirical studies show that the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor is larger than one in developed … elasticity of substitution. The case of a falling real interest rate and capital deepening in the developed countries in the … elasticity of substitution can be responsible for a U-shaped relationship between the capital intensity of the developed country …

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A dual elasticity of substitution production function with an application to cross country inequality

Antony, Jürgen - 2007

This paper develops a production function which two separate elasticities of substitution between two input factors. One of these elasticities is obtained if the factor intensity equals a particular baseline value. The second part of the paper gives an economic application and shows the...

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Would You Like to Be a Prosumer? Information Revelation, Personalization and Price Discrimination in Electronic Markets

Bandulet, Martin; Morasch, Karl - 2003

Electronic commerce and flexible manufacturing allow personalization of initially standardized products at low cost. Will customers provide the information necessary for personalization? Assuming that a consumer can control the amount of information revealed, we analyse how his decision...

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The economics of regional demarcation in banking

Raab, Simone; Welzel, Peter - 2010

Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...

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Bank's Assets and Liabilities Management with Multiple Sources of Risk

Pausch, Thilo - 2003

The industrial organization approach to banking is applied to analyze theeffects of the introduction of joint credit and interbank rate risk on the optimaldecisions on deposits and loans of a competitive bank. It is found that dueto the introduction of both sources of risk there appear direct...

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A further note on a new class of solutions to dynamic programming problems arising in economic growth

Antony, Jürgen; Maußner, Alfred - 2008

This note extends the finding of Benhabib and Rusticchini (1994) who provide a class of SDGE models, whose solution is characterized by a constant savings rate. We show that this class of models may be interpreted as a standard representative agent SDGE model with costly adjustment of capital...

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Market dynamics, dynamic resource management and environmental policy in the context of (strong) sustainability

Klarl, Torben - 2010

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between market dynamics, dynamic resource management and environmental policy. In contrast to static market entry games, this paper draws attention to the effects of market dynamics on resource dynamics et vice versa, because (1) we show that...

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Regulation, credit risk transfer, and bank lending

Pausch, Thilo; Welzel, Peter - 2011

We integrate Basel II (and III) regulations into the industrial organization approach to banking and analyze lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. The bank is exposed to credit risk and may use credit default swaps (CDS) for hedging purposes. Regulation is found to induce...

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Policy diffusion in a simple Stackelberg game

Michaelis, Peter; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2010

Strategic environmental policy games are usually based on simultaneous decision making and reach the conclusion that the policy choices are strategic substitutes. Empirical evidence, however, shows that the introduction of a regulatory instrument usually follows a consecutive pattern that is...

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The analytics of New Keynesian Phillips curves

Maußner, Alfred - 2010

This paper introduces the reader into the apparatus behind the popular New Keynesian Phillips (NKPC) curve. It derives several log-linear versions of this curve and recursive formulations of the Calvo-Yun price staggeringmodel that is behind this curve. These formulations can be used for...

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