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A Beam of Light : Media, Tourism & Economic Development

Nocito, Samuel; Sartarelli, Marcello; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2021

Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists … to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism … factor of 2.5. Furthermore, we provide evidence of positive spillovers in nearby municipalities. To estimate the tourism …

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Diasporas and Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence and Policy

Bahar, Dany - 2020

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital"

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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...

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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development

Carson, Scott A. - 2020

When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...

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Tax Systems and Development

Mardan, Mohammed - 2020

This paper analyzes the optimal tax system consisting of the tax rate and the capacity of the tax administration. I challenge the conventional wisdom that tax rates and tax administrations' capacity are complements showing that their relationship depends on a country's level of development....

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...

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Subsidizing extra jobs: promoting employment by taming the unions

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2007

We study the subsidization of extra jobs in a general equilibrium framework. While the previous literature focuses on symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme...

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Optimal redistributive tax and education policies in general equilibrium

Jacobs, Bas - 2007

Should a redistributive government optimally subsidize education to provoke a reduction in the skill premium through general equilibrium effects on wages? To answer this question, this paper studies optimal linear and non-linear redistributive income taxes and education subsidies in two-type...

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Demographic change and regional labour markets: the case of Eastern Germany

Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel - 2008

Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...

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Trade retaliation in a monetary-trade model

Whalley, John; Yu, Jun; Zhang, Shunming - 2009

We explore how outcomes of trade policy retaliation (Nash tariff games) are affected when trade simultaneously takes places geographically across countries and through time via financial intermediation. In such models deficits and surpluses in goods trade are endogenously determined, and...

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