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Aid, Public Expenditure and Dutch Disease

Adam, Christopher; Bevan, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of aid often concentrate on short-run Dutch disease effects, ignoring the possible supply model of aid and public expenditure in which public infrastructure capital generates an inter-temporal productivity spill over for both tradable and...

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Redistributive Taxation and Public Expenditures

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Esteban, Joan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

We introduce a model of redistributive income taxation and public expenditure. Besides redistributing personal income by means of taxes and transfers, the government supplies goods and services. The government chooses the tax schedule that is found acceptable by the largest share possible of the...

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Aid and the Supply Side: Public Investment, Export Performance and Dutch Disease in Low Income Countries

Adam, Christopher; Bevan, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of aid often concentrate on short run Dutch disease effects, ignoring the possible supply side impact of aid financed public expenditure. We present a simple model of aid and public expenditure in which public infrastructure generates an...

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Patent Laws and Innovation in China

Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China

Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making. Chinaâ€™s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid â€˜social instabilityâ€™. It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...

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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …

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Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

determinants of subjective well-being. Less attention has been paid to its normative implications. Taking China as a case study …

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Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China

Bretschger, Lucas; Zhang, Lin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general …

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Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

appropriate data set for China. The tests favour the early theories. Implications are drawn. …

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Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion

Eberhardt, Markus; Helmers, Christian - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

China and the United States. We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China …. Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …

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