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The Circular Economy
Fullerton, Don - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies - to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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Sustainability in a Risky World
Campbell, John Y.; Martin, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We view sustainability as a requirement that welfare should not be expected to decline over time. We impose this …
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Population, Productivity, and Sustainable Consumption
Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
maximizes welfare. This raises a question: Given its cost, should sustainability be a social objective? …
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Undisclosed Debt Sustainability
Alfaro, Laura - 2019
Over the past decade, non-Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low … sustainability. Disclosure of nontraditional debt would imply significant welfare gains for the recipient countries but would reduce … its sustainability. We discuss the implications of nontraditional lending on standard assumptions of sovereign debt models …
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An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability
Gluzmann, Pablo A. - 2018
was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …
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Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?
Buiter, Willem H. - 2010
This paper, a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of the Indian Economy, edited by Chetan Ghate, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts concerning public debt and deficits in India, the...
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The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2009
This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation....
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Inflation Implications of Rising Government Debt
Giannitsarou, Chryssi - 2006
examine the channels through which governments achieve fiscal sustainability. We evaluate the ability of this framework to …
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A New Index of Debt Sustainability
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2017
Debt sustainability is fundamentally a probabilistic concept: Debt is rarely sustainable with probability one. We … propose an index of external debt sustainability that reflects this uncertainty. Namely we construct the index as the … strong measures are potentially needed to reestablish sustainability. Exchange rates that appear overvalued in the baseline …
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