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transfers over this period is taken into account. We show that the increase in capital's share of total income and the presence … of capital-entrepreneurial skill complementarity are two key features that help support the wages of ordinary workers as …
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cycle model with state contingent debt, capital-skill complementarity, endogenous skill formation and stochastic shocks to … public consumption as well as total factor and capital equipment productivity. Our main finding is that an empirically …
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This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a … repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three countries with heterogenous capital endowments. We show … harmonization is sustainable or not crucially depends on the extent to which the capital endowment of the medium-sized country is …
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We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners … replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top quintile income share, capital’s share of income, and key macroeconomic … variables over the period 1970 to 2013. For the baseline simulation, the welfare gain for capital owners is 3.7% of per …
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elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa …'s theorem to show that introducing human capital accumulation in the standard way does not resolve the puzzle. However, balanced … growth is possible if education is endogenous and capital is more complementary with schooling than with raw labor. We …
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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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It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing...
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Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of Industrial...
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A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
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