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literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex … robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …
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Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug cartels, nation-wide homicides almost tripled between 2006 and 2010. Using rich longitudinal plant-level data, this paper studies the impact of violent conflict on firms,...
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Agent-Based Model with Capital and Credit (hereafter CC-MABM). The novelty of this model with respect to the previous … framework consists in the introduction of capital goods that firms producing consumption goods (C-firms) purchase from capital … goods producers (K-firms). The introduction of durability (in the form of capital which depreciates gradually) has important …
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with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We … allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing power struggle about … result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick …
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The classical Wage Fund (Capital or Credit) framework is integrated with the simplest text-book version of the … theory involving capital and labour without neo-classical assumptions. Interestingly the growth story of the model seems to …. Technological progress without physical capital accumulation magnifies inequality in or out of steady state, generating a Picketty …
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We review the theoretical justification of consumption taxes in advanced economies, providing a systematic overview of the vast public finance literature exploring how goods and services should be taxed. Our discussion focuses on both the determinants of the optimal level of consumption taxation...
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KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual … property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume that the aggregate output is produced using labor and these three … types of capital and allow for differences in the elasticities of substitution between labor, an aggregate of ICT and IP …
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …
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