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are relaxed, the empirical support for the CAPM is very strong. When human capital is also included in measuring wealth …
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A Beckerian model of household production is developed to study the allocation of capital and time between market and … the market, labor interacts with business capital to produce market goods and services, and likewise at home the remaining … time, leisure, is combined with household capital to produce home goods and services. The theoretical model presented is …
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We construct a model where capital competes with fiat money as a medium of exchange, and we establish conditions on … fundamentals under which fiat money can be both valued and socially beneficial. When the socially efficient stock of capital is too … Rule, fiat money provides just enough liquidity so that agents choose to accumulate the same capital stock a social planner …
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Capital accumulation and creative destruction is modeled together with risk-averse households. The novel aspect …
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organization capital. Theory suggests that where plants are in the life cycle determines the size of the payments, or dividends …, plant owners receive from organization capital. These payments are compensation for the interest cost to plant owners of … payments plant owners receive from physical capital, net of new investment, and more than 40% of payments from all forms of …
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In this paper we analyze the efficacy of seignorage as a tax associated with various monetary arrangements in a computable general equilibrium model. For the economies examined, we find that seignorage tax is not a good one relative to a tax on labor income. If the after-tax real return is –5...
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We study a dynamic version of Meltzer and Richard's median-voter analysis of the size of government. Taxes are proportional to total income, and they are used for government consumption, which is exogenous, and for lump-sum transfers, whose size is chosen by electoral vote. Votes take place...
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This paper presents a full characterization of the equilibrium value set of a Ramsey tax model. More generally, it develops a dynamic programming method for a class of policy games between the government and a continuum of consumers. By selectively incorporating Euler conditions into a strategic...
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A sizeable literature has argued that the growth effects of changes in flat rate taxes are small. In this paper, we investigate the relatively unexplored area of the growth effect of changes in the tax structure, in particular, in the progressivity of taxes. Considering such a tax reform seems...
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We use an extended Barro-Becker model of endogenous fertility, in which parents are heterogeneous in their labor productivity, to study the efficient degree of consumption inequality in the long run. In our environment a utilitarian planner allows for consumption inequality even when labor...
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