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-defined knowledge of our preferences, all possible states of the world, all possible actions (our "technologies"), the mappings among …
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innovating with respect to their understandings of the world in which they operate, the technologies they master, their … technological evolution; (ii) The theory of the firm in evolving environments; (iii) The formalization of learning processes; (iv …) the theory of production; (v) consumption patterns; (vi) economic interactions and the working of markets; and, (vii) The …
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This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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This paper analyses the welfare effects of price restrictions on private contracting in a world where agents have a …
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Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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In this chapter we discuss the role of natural resources and endowment structures on structural change. Departing from theories of trade that stress specialization according to one's comparative advantages as the key route to development, we articulate an alternative point of view on the role of...
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Ansatz einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral. Untersucht wird, wie die beiden Ansätze dem moralischen Anliegen vorarbeiten …, die internationale Versorgung mit Arzneimitteln zu verbessern, d.h. wie sie als Theorie dem praktischen Missstand … einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral primär darin, dass in armen Ländern vielfach die institutionellen Voraussetzungen …
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Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this … countries hinder the poor from expressing their needs as actual demand on the market. From a theory point of view, the major …
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In this paper we present a multi-country, multi-industry agent-based model investigating the different growth patterns of interdependent economies. Each country features a Schumpeterian engine of endogenous technical change which interacts with Keyneasian/Kaldorian demand generation mechanisms....
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