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Why 'Buy American' is a Bad Idea but Politicians Still Like It

Larch, Mario - 2010

When the world economy was recently hit by a severe recession, governments all over the world reacted by initiating stimulus packages. Some countries (among them, most notably, China and the US) tried to put special emphasis on their home industries by including “Buy local” clauses into the...

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Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions in a Global Economy

Holzner, Christian - 2011

Convex vacancy creation costs shape firms' responses to trade liberalization. They induce capacity constraints by increasing firms' cost of production, leading a profit maximizing firm not to fully meet the increased foreign demand. Hence, firms will only serve a few export markets. More...

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Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising representative agents with rational expectations. We argue that the dominance of this particular sort...

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Icebergs Versus Tariffs : A Quantitative Perspective on the Gains from Trade

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2013

Recent quantitative trade models treat import tariffs as pure cost shifters so that their effects are similar to iceberg trade costs. We introduce revenue-generating import tariffs, which act as demand shifters, into the framework of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare (2012), and generalize...

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From Optimal Tax Theory to Applied Tax Policy

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

This paper aims to provide a perspective on the ideal tax system using insights from optimal-tax theory supplemented …

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Second-Best Income Taxation with Endogenous Human Capital and Borrowing Constraints

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

We formulate a two-period life-cycle model of saving, labor supply, and human capital investments when individuals differ in ability and initial wealth. Borrowing constraints prevent individuals to optimally smooth consumption over the life-cycle and to optimally invest in human capital. We show...

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Optimal Linear Commodity Taxation Under Optimal Non-Linear Income Taxation

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

This paper analyzes optimal linear commodity taxes joint with non-linear income taxes. We provide optimal tax rules based on empirically observable elasticities. We demonstrate that commodities should be taxed/subsidized if doing so boosts labor supply. The critical role of commodity taxation is...

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An Exponential Class of Dynamic Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

Al-Sadoon, Majid - 2013

This paper develops a model for dynamic binary choice panel data that allows for unobserved heterogeneity to be arbitrarily correlated with covariates. The model is of the exponential type. We derive moment conditions that enable us to eliminate the unobserved heterogeneity term and at the same...

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Double-Question Survey Measures for the Analysis of Financial Bubbles and Crashes

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2017

belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets …-valued), and another regarding his/her expectations of the future price of that asset. Responses to these two questions are then … between the agents expectations of price changes and their asset valuation. Double question surveys on equity, gold and house …

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

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