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Equilibrium Analysis, Banking and Financial Instability

Tsomocos, Dimitrios P - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper first extends the canonical General Equilibrium with Incomplete Markets (GEI) model with money and default to allow for competitive banking and financial instability. Second, it introduces capital requirements for the banking sector to assess the short and medium term macroeconomic...

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Ambiguity Aversion and Incompleteness of Financial Markets

Mukerji, Sujoy; Tallon, Jean-Marc - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

It is widely thought that incomes risks can be shared by trading in financial assets. But financial assets typically carry some risk idiosyncratic to them, hence, disposing incomes risk using financial assets will involve buying into the inherent idiosyncratic risk. However, standard theory...

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Finance, Investment and Growth

Mayer, Colin; Carlin, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

there is a relation in terms of both industry growth rates and shares of output devoted to R&D. Investment in R&D rather … countries` stages of economic development. For example, bank oriented systems are associated with higher growth of externally …

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How Do Financial Systems Affect Economic Performance?

Mayer, Colin; Carlin, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

financial development with economic growth. A recent theoretical literature offers a way of reconciling these two sets of …

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Productivity Growth in Latin America during the Twentieth Century

Fitzgerald, Valpy; Astorga, Pablo - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

, Mexico, and Venezuela indicates that productivity growth was significantly higher and less volatile during the middle decades … of the century than in the opening and closing decades. The first estimate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for …

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will …

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The effect of schooling on worker productivity: Evidence from a South African industry panel

Teal, Francis; Burger, Rulof P. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Schooling is typically found to be highly correlated with individual earnings in African countries. However, African firm or sector level studies have failed to identify a similarly strong effect for average worker schooling levels on productivity. This has been interpreted as evidence that...

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Human Capital and Competition: Strategic Complementarities in Firm-based Training

Stevens, Margaret - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Vocational training systems differ markedly between countries. A model of firm-based human capital investment predicts equilibria characterised by particular patterns of training and job-to-job mobility, consistent with observed cross-country differences. Incentives to invest in human capital...

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Information and Human Capital Management

Jewitt, Ian; Leaver, Clare; Bar-Isaac, Heski - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

An increasingly important organisational design problem for many firms is to recoup general human capital rents while maintaining attractive career prospects for workers. We explore the role of information management in this context. In our model, an information management policy determines the...

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Brain Drain or Brain Gain?Micro Evidence from an African Success Story

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde - the sub-Saharan African country with the largest fraction of tertiary-educated...

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