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The paper builds an argument that international trade can be one explanation behind polarization of employment in the labor market observed in developed countries such as U.K. and U.S. It considers a small open economy, having production sectors which use three types of labor: high-skill,...
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-run output effects of the different consolidation strategies, but also regarding the welfare effects and the distributional … of credit-constrained households who cannot smooth consumption has a large impact on the overall output and welfare …
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, through a comparison of social welfare given the strategies chosen by the locals governments, that whatever the quality of the …
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This paper discusses the underpinnings of the financial crisis of the last decade. It explores the endogenous reasons of this crisis, and in particular a possible link between delayed and unequal growth of household incomes in post-transition countries on one hand and the instability of their...
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costs. This creates a new trade off for firms between a low tax-burden and the exercising of market power. Welfare for …
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workers have the same probability of being hired. We argue that selective hiring crucially affects welfare analysis. Our model … predictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are much larger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result, optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …
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. Persistently increasing those costs, reduces the welfare in the model economy but increases employment. The reason for the …
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is welfare improving for the foreign country, but welfare declining for the domestic country. If only multinational firms … are competitive, the impact on market structure and the welfare of the domestic country is indeterminate, whereas the … welfare of the foreign country improves. By contrast, if the oligopolistic industry is located in both countries' then FDI …
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The recent financial crisis has highlighted the limits of the “originate to distribute“ model of banking, but its nexus with the macroeconomy and monetary policy remains unexplored. I build a DSGE model with banks (along the lines of Holmström and Tirole [28] and Parlour and Plantin [39])...
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as the consumption-wealth ratio, the growth rate of wealth, and welfare, in a two-country world, based on a portfolio …-wealth ratio, and welfare should be higher in an open economy due to a higher productivity and/or less volatility through risk …
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