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This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted to explore the sources of the productivity change. In...
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In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift …, we investigate the relative merits of ownership and use taxes. We compare full internalisation of congestion … congestion damage rises with more trips. Ownership taxes only partially internalise congestion externalities. However, in terms …
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their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … is a public good where congestion effects are potentially important. Because the optimal class size is larger for behaved … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non …
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paper studies toll competition among private roads with congestion. The paper derives two main results. First, we find … sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium in pure strategies with strictly positive tolls. Equilibrium congestion …-of-pocket cost paid by a user, it increases the congestion cost thereby reducing the drivers' willingness to pay for using the road …
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indistinguishable, then congestion charges must be anonymous. Second, the time variation of congestion charges may be constrained. Do … these constraints undermine the feasibility of marginal cost pricing, and hence the applicability of the first-best theory … if the time variation of congestion charges is unconstrained, then marginal cost pricing is feasible with anonymous …
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-migration, congestion of other local publicly provided goods may offset the direct benefits. Using the example of rural household … location choice model that incorporates missing land markets and allows for congestion in local land. Using this model, we … prediction from the model is that migration elasticities and congestion effects are especially large when land markets are …
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This paper establishes the existence of multiple equilibria in infinite-horizon open- economy models in which the value of tradable and nontradable endowments serves as collateral. In this environment, the economy displays self-fulfilling financial crises in which pessimistic views about the...
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We explore the consequences of safe asset scarcity on aggregate demand in a stylized IS-LM/Mundell Fleming environment. Acute safe asset scarcity forces the economy into a "safety trap" recession. In the open economy, safe asset scarcity spreads from one country to the other via capital flows,...
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We show that even in the absence of diminishing returns in production and techno-logical spillovers, international trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns: countries that accumulate capital faster than...
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In recent empirical literature on spatial agglomeration, many papers find evidence consistent with location-specific externalities of some sort. Our willingness to accept evidence of agglomeration economies depends on how well key estimation problems have been addressed. Three issues are...
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