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We ask how barriers to international trade affect TFP when there are monopoly rights in the import …--competing industries. Holmes and Schmitz (1995) show that without barriers to trade TFP in these industries is as large as possible. We … reduce TFP. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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We study a two–sector version of the neoclassical growth model with coalitions of factor suppliers in the capital producing sectors. We show that if the coalitions have monopoly rights, then they block the adoption of the efficient technology. We also show that blocking leads to a decrease in...
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because they do not only reduce TFP in capital-producing sector but also increase the relative price of capital.This reduces …
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because they do not only reduce TFP in capital-producing sector but also increase the relative price of capital. This reduces …
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We ask how barriers to international trade affect TFP when there are monopoly rights in the import-competing industries …. Holmes and Schmitz (1995) show that without barriers to trade TFP in these industries is as large as possible. We study the … quantities, if they produce at all. For both of these reasons, barriers to international trade reduce TFP. …
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The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the European Union. It is a forum for people with ideas from Britain and across the continent to discuss the many political, economic and social challenges facing Europe. It seeks to work with...
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An important part of external or policy shocks is transmitted throughout the economy via various channels of transactions. To analyse such channels and to predict the impact of shocks, it is expedient to know who recently exchanged what with whom and for what purpose. The most appropriate format...
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The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis monthly journal of record presents summary estimates and analyses of U.S. economic activity. It includes articles about the national, regional, and international economic accounts and related topics. It also presents the latest estimates of the national...
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We show that indeterminacy can easily arise in multi-sector models that have constant variable returns to scale and very small market imperfections. This is in sharp contrast to models that require increasing returns to generate indeterminacy, and which have been criticized on the basis of...
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This paper reviews two recent books on Political Economy by Allan Drazen and Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini. It discusses some problems of the recent Political Economy literature.
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