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Costs of taxation and the benefits of public goods : the role of income effects
Martin, Will - 2005
"The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good provision than indicated by traditional, compensated analyses. The authors confirm that this...
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Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia
Rao, Vijayendra - 2005
. In this paper, building on work in social theory, the author argues that common property can also be social …
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Equitable provision of long-term public goods : the role of negotiation mandates
Hourcade, Jean Charles - 2003
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North-south trade-related technology diffusion, brain drain and productivity growth : are small states different?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
"The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those of large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in small and large...
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New product technology, accumulation, and growth
Khan, Faruk A. - 2006
"This paper asks whether new technological capacity for producing and exporting additional products provides incentives for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Using a highly disaggregated data set of each...
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Knowledge and development : a cross-section approach
Chen, Derek Hung Chiat - 2004
"Chen and Dahlman assess the effects of knowledge on economic growth. By using an array of indicators, each of which represents an aspect of knowledge, as independent variables in cross-section regressions that span 92 countries for the period 1960 to 2000, they show that knowledge is a...
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Boosting productivity via innovation and adoption of new technologies : any role for labor market institutions?
Tressel, Thierry - 2004
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Strategic approaches to science and technology in development
Crawford, Michael Frederick - 2003
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Does asymmetric information cause the home equity bias?
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005
"The home equity bias is one of the many puzzles existing in international finance. This puzzle is characterized by the …-Ortega tries to explain the effect of asymmetric information in the home equity bias puzzle. While asymmetric information helps to … also consistent with home equity bias reversals. One proposition generalizes these results. Simulations corroborate the …
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How can donors help build global public goods in health ?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2009
"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...
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