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We compare free trade reached through expanding regional trading blocks to free trade accomplished by multilateral negotiation. With sunk costs, the outcomes are different. Trade in an imperfectly competitive good flows disproportionately more between the original members of a regional agreement...
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Big cities specialize in services rather than manufacturing. Big-city establishments in services are larger than the national average while those in manufacturing are smaller. This paper proposes an explanation of these and other facts. The theory is developed in an economic geography model that...
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We construct a measure of aggregate technology change, controlling for imperfect competition, varying utilization of … capital and labor, and aggregation effects. On impact, when technology improves, input use falls sharply, and output may fall … frictionless dynamic general equilibrium models, which generally predict that technology improvements are expansionary, with inputs …
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of a technology shock has become widely utilized. In this paper, we investigate its reliability through Monte Carlo … impact of a technology shock on macroeconomic variables, and a corresponding level of uncertainty about the contribution of … technology shocks to the business cycle. …
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of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Classic papers from the late 1950's and 1960's show that non …-optimization models display the same asymptotic growth rates whether technology is embodied (vintage capital) or disembodied. This paper …
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Aggregate productivity and aggregate technology are meaningful but distinct concepts. We show that a slightly …-modified Solow productivity residual measures changes in economic welfare, even when productivity and technology differ because of …-technological gaps between productivity and technology, gaps reflecting imperfections and frictions in output and factor markets …
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