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This paper presents a framework to understand and measure the effects of political borders on economic growth and per capita income levels. We present a model providing a theoretical foundation to estimate empirically the effects of political borders on growth. In our model, political...
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Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...
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Entering a currency union without any political union European countries have taken a gamble: will the needs of the currency union force a political integration (as anticipated by Monnet) or will the tensions create a backlash, as suggested by Kaldor, Friedman and many others? We try to answer...
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increases in government spending have a strong negative effect on investment spending …
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The national-income accounts double-count investment, which enters once when it occurs and again in present value as … exaggeration of capital-income shares. An alternative measure involves a form of full expensing of gross investment. In the steady … consumption because full expensing applies to the long-run flow of gross investment …
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According to the consensus view in growth and development economics, cross country differences in per-capita income largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for patterns of capital flows: everything else equal,...
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We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven …' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent … set of assumptions, the merchant investment model has a remarkable set of attributes that appear to solve the natural …
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the Great Recession and ensuing recovery. Our multi-sector framework accounts completely for countries' trade, investment … declines in durables investment efficiency, account for most of the collapse in trade relative to GDP. Shocks to trade …
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Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
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