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Agent-Based Model with Capital and Credit (hereafter CC-MABM). The novelty of this model with respect to the previous … framework consists in the introduction of capital goods that firms producing consumption goods (C-firms) purchase from capital … goods producers (K-firms). The introduction of durability (in the form of capital which depreciates gradually) has important …
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with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We … allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing power struggle about … result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …
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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
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This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …
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Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
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