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Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market : A Steady-State Analysis
Wang, Ping - 2008
We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The disadvantage is that producing in the host country also means using the inferior technology embodied in the local capital. The decision of...
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An Environmental-Economic Measure of Sustainable Development
Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2021
A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315739
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2018
This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927189
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Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth - When Piketty Meets Romer
Irmen, Andreas - 2017
of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965706
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Adverse Effects of Ultra-Loose Monetary Policies on Investment, Growth and Income Distribution
Hoffmann, Andreas - 2016
The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the monetary overinvestment theories of Hayek and Mises. We argue that ultra-loose monetary policies create incentives to substitute real investment by financial investment. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996802
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Discounting, Inequalities and Economic Convergence
Gollier, Christian - 2013
The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of inequalities and economic convergence on the efficient discount rate, in the absence of any risk-sharing scheme. We consider an economy in which the initial consumption level and the distribution of consumption growth are heterogeneous. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094078
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The Sustainability of Chinese Growth and the Aggregate Factor Substitution Elasticity
Whalley, John - 2012
We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth performance in the Chinese case as argued by Weitzman in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110413
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Brown Growth, Green Growth, and the Efficiency of Urbanization
Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2021
We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too large and too few in number in uncoordinated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315820
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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2015
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted … economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028919
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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy
Krieger, Tim - 2016
distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999751