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growth model can be a potential source of local indeterminacy. He also shows that on a high-growth path, the government, by … directly engaging in R&D activities and using R&D subsidies, may not enhance economic growth. On a low-growth path, the … government, by directly engaging in R&D activities and using R&D subsidies, may enhance economic growth. …
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This paper presents the model of an economy subject to the mass conservation principle. The economic system is related to the environment by a flow of virgin materials into the economy, and by the diffusion of waste into the environment. Ecoefficiency contributes to reducing material waste in...
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Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
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&D-based growth models with the return to innovation serving as the engine of growth. In this paper the authors consider the strength … institutional quality affect the economic growth and social welfare. It is found that the intermediate good firm with full IPR …, decreasing the IPR protection will increase the rent/franchise fee. The authors also show that the growth-maximizing effects of …
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consumers, and what the growth potential of these goods is. While, all else equal, the North tends to lose more (or gain less …
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growth strategy. …
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We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The …
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Many Western countries face the challenge of reconciling future labor demand with growing public opposition to immigration. The dynamics and underlying processes of setting immigration requirements remain unclear as research so far mainly focuses on context-specific empirical studies. We use a...
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The paper looks at the global environment as a public good and as a sink for CO2-emissions. It discusses problems to be solved in institutional arrangements to protect global environmental media and looks at criteria for allocating the costs of emission reduction and emission rights. It analyzes...
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In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that … do not export. We also find that trade iberalization promotes economic growth and that it has the opposite effect of … retarding economic growth in a closely comparable growth model with Melitz-type assumptions …
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