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This paper explores the consequences of skill biased technological progress on the savings rates. The literature, both … burgeoned considerably. So has the literature on declining household savings, motivated by the American experience over the past … couple of decades. I present a general equilibrium model where declining savings rates emerges as an outcome of exogenously …
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2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …
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This paper attempts to measure how information provision affects usage of consumer durables, using data on residential demand for electricity in Japan. Assuming that consumer preferences are well described by a translog indirect utility function, a discrete-continuous model of information and...
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The Commission was asked to review the National Third Party Access Regime for Natural Gas Pipelines. The review sought to assess the benefits and costs of the Regime, including its effects on investment. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003...
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At the request of the Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, the Assistant Treasurer asked the Commission to undertake a research study examining the performance of commercial buildings and analyse any impediments to better performance of such buildings and how to overcome them. The study...
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This paper explores the consequences of rising returns to human capital investment on the personal savings rate. Over … to argue the presence of 'skill biased technological progress'. The literature explaining household savings has also … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative …
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MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN THE EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE OF THIS ROLE. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE …
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profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly …
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, contrary to a pure neoclassical model, domestic savings should act as a complement rather than a substitute to capital inflows …
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Commission. 'The savings shortfall argument falsely presumes that causation goes from savings to the trade deficit'. The savings … shortfall argument is support by nothing more than reasoning by analogy from the pre-trade closed economy. The equation Savings … irrelevant the low level of savings as reported by the National Income and Product Accounts. …
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