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Incentives in Markets, Firms and Governments

Acemoglu, Daron - 2003

Most government expenditure is on goods that yield primarily private benefits, such as education, pensions, and healthcare. We argue that markets are most advantageous in areas where high-powered incentives are desirable, but in areas where high-powered incentives stimulate unproductive...

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Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

This paper develops the thesis that credit market frictions may be an important contributor to high unemployment in … market imperfections, so unemployment rises and remains high for an extended period. The data show that there has not been … industries is lower than in the U.S.. This suggests that although credit market imperfections are unlikely to have been the major …

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then...

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