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Developing countries are vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, yet there is disagreement about what they should do to protect themselves from antic- ipated damages. In particular, it is unclear what the optimal balance is between investments in traditional productive capital...
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In this paper we distinguish different “qualities” of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use ‘quality’ to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...
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This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth—both empirical and theoretical—distinguish from previous work in three distinct...
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Two issues related to mapping a multi-sector model into a reduced-form value-added model are often neglected: the composition of intermediate goods, and the distinction between value added productivity and gross output productivity. We demonstrate their quantitative significance for the case of...
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A reduction in income tax rates generates substantial dynamic responses within the framework of the standard … neoclassical growth model. The short-run revenue loss after an income tax cut is partly - or, depending on parameter values, even … response of government revenue to tax cuts by a relevant amount. In our benchmark calibration, a reduction in the capital-income …
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In Part A of the present study, subtitled 'The Consumption Function as Solution of a Boundary Value Problem' Discussion Paper No. TE/96/297, STICERD, London School of Economics, we formulated a Brownian model of accumulation and derived sufficient conditions for optimality of a plan generated by...
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during the development process. In our model, per capita is more volatile in the middle-income economies than in both low and … high-income economies. We show that, if the model economy is in the early or in the mature stages of development there is a …
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