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capital damage and labour displacement, rather than productivity losses, are the primary channels through which flooding …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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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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