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The objective of this paper is to critically assess the use of simple rules for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that employ a rudimentary form of the Ramsey Rule. Two interrelated caveats apply. First, if climate change poses a serious problem, it is hard to justify an exogenous constant growth...
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No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...
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those suppliers it does affect, the rule increases investment, but it also induces excessive sourcing (for given investment …
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combines elements of the literatures on economic geography, multinational firms, urban economics, and trade theory. A two …-city country trades with the larger world, and workers within the country are mobile between the two cities. Productivity in a …
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The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …
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shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles …
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complementary investment in production activities. Our theoretical findings are motivated by existing empirical evidence and a fresh …
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investment in an international infrastructure capital, the stock of which accumulates over time. Depending on the trade costs and … consideration, the governments carry out a dynamic game of public investment. We show that the dynamic equilibrium of the policy … certain level, the infrastructure stock decreases (increases) over time, and the world economy will end up in autarky (two …
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will be different for the two firm types. This in turn will affect the investment incentives and distort capital and labour …
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and only if the investment elasticity of the tax base is lower than the investment elasticity of the apportionment factor …
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