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Human capital accumulation may negatively affect economic growth by increasing tax avoidance and reducing effective tax rates and productive public investment. This paper analyzes how the endogenous feedback between human capital accumulation and tax avoidance affects economic growth and...
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consumption and leisure. Thus, we avoid a Consumptionist Fallacy that welfare depends only on commodityconsumption and perhaps …
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The nineteenth century was a time of substantial changes in the patterns of economic growth. This was also a period of significant fluctuations in the structure of and allocation of political rights. Through successive franchise extensions, democracy expanded dramatically, giving birth to the...
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Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large – varying by as much as a factor of 35 across countries (Hall and Jones 1999). These differentials mostly reflect the "Great Divergence" (Sam Huntingon) – the fact that Western Europe and former European colonies grew rapidly...
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The permanent decline of equipment prices relative to nondurable consumption prices rendered fixed-base quantity …-sector endogenous growth model, we use the Bellman equation to explicitly represent preferences on consumption and investment, we apply …
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This paper contributes to the literature on both embodied technical progress and firm dynamics, by formulating an endogenous growth model where selection and imitation play a fundamental role in helping capital good producers to learn about the productivity of technologies embodied in new...
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We analyze the transitional dynamics of a model with heterogeneous consumption goods. In this model, convergence is … relative prices. We show that this second force a¤ects the growth rate if the two consumption goods are not Edgeworth … aforementioned dynamic sectoral change arises only under heterogeneous consumption goods, the transitional dynamics of this model …
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goods. They often worked as servants in husbandry, where they remained unmarried long after they had left the parental …
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exhibits sectoral change due to the introduction of heterogenous consumption goods and of a minimum consumption requirement. In … of the capital stocks and of the minimum consumption requirement. This implies that the minimum consumption is a barrier …
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In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have on average grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative effect...
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