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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? Theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East

Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …

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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries: a simple analytical framework

Mejía, Daniel - 2008

data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the …

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A unified theory of firm selection and growth

Arkolakis, Costas - 2009

This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is continuous arrival of new potential producers. Firms can also...

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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes: The case of teenage pregnancy

Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

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Relational Collusion in the Colombian Electricity Market

Bernasconi, Mario; Espinosa, Miguel; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023

Under collusion, firms deviate from current profit maximization in anticipation of future rewards. As current profit maximization places little restrictions on firms' pricing behaviour, collusive conduct is hard to infer. We show that bids from certain firms in the Colombian wholesale...

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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006

follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several threshold properties of the model, for such a shock can severely …

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Measuring the Economic Risk of Epidemics

Noy, Ilan; Doan, Nguyen; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2019

epidemic hazard prediction, we use data from 2014-2019 to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the … local economy to the shock of an epidemic. Using a battery of proxies for these four concepts, we calculate the hazard (the … zoonotic source of a possible epidemic), the principal components of exposure and vulnerability to it, and of the economy …

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On the Optimal "Lockdown" during an Epidemic

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020

We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...

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Should Contact Bans Be Lifted in Germany? A Quantitative Prediction of Its Effects

Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020

Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...

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