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supply of labor encourages technological progress. In contrast, the famous Habakkuk hypothesis in economic history claims …This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological … that technological progress was more rapid in 19th-century United States than in Britain because of labor scarcity in the …
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We study dynamic selection of governments under different political institutions, with a special focus on institutional "flexibility". A government consists of a subset of the individuals in the society. The competence level of the government in office determines collective utilities (e.g., by...
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We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good …
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traders and instead attribute these findings to overconfidence. In contrast, we find that household financial choices …
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-convex portfolio adjustment costs. The goal is to understand a household's response to income and return shocks. The model includes the … multiple assets, a household can buffer some income fluctuations through the asset without adjustment costs and engage in …
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