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economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance … across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of …
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find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I …
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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined …
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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-run effects of capital markets integration, in equilibrium, on the optimal provision of education and growth. Third, we examine a … education with and without capital markets integration. First, we explore how regimes of education provision - public, private … competition game where countries compete in the provision of public education. …
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After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …
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In most monetary models of economic growth, higher long-run inflation is associated with a decline in the growth rate …. We consider three types of endogenous growth models: 1) the AK-model, 2) the Lucas (1990) supply-side model, and 3) the … inflation results in lower growth and employment in all three models, while, in the cash-credit good economy of Dotsey and …
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We analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth …
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We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of …-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can affect macroeconomic outcomes. Financial openness may affect GDP growth in and …. Second, financial openness lowers GDP growth. Third, granular effects tend to be stronger in financially closed economies. …
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By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers’ productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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