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Human capital : a theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education
Becker, Gary Stanley - 1975 - 2. ed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000596963
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Capital consumption and adjustment
Fabricant, Solomon - 1938
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000563668
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State Versus Private Ownership
Shleifer, Andrei - 1998
costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472146
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A Model of Capital and Crises
He, Zhiguo - 2008
We develop a model in which the capital of the intermediary sector plays a critical role in determining asset prices. The model is cast within a dynamic general equilibrium economy, and the role for intermediation is derived endogenously based on optimal contracting considerations. Low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464283
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
with disdain for work. We propose an economic theory of preference formation where both the divergence of attitudes across … social classes and the ensuing reversal of economic fortunes are equilibrium outcomes. In our theory, parents shape their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465739
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Democratic Capital : The Nexus of Political and Economic Change
Persson, Torsten - 2006
We study the joint dynamics of economic and political change. Predictions of the simple model that we formulate in the paper get considerable support in a panel of data on political regimes and GDP per capita for about 150 countries over 150 years. Democratic capital -- measured by a nation's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466494
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Customer Capital
Gourio, Francois - 2011
Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product markets, which require firms to spend resources on customer acquisition, this paper develops a search theoretic model of firm dynamics in frictional product markets. Introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461466
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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others … will free- ride on the cutthroat incentives of the leaders and choose a more "cuddly" form of capitalism. Paradoxically … equilibrium, it is not a best response for the cutthroat capitalists to switch to a more cuddly form of capitalism. We also show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460215
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Monetary Policy in the Capitals of Capital
Gerko, Elena - 2017
The importance of financial markets and international capital flows have increased greatly since the 1990s. How does this affect the effectiveness of monetary policy? We analyse the transmission of monetary policy in two important financial centres, the United States and the United Kingdom....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455031
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Essays in the economics of crime and punishment
Becker, Gary Stanley (ed.); Landes, William M. (contributor) - 1974
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000330102