How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand …

In this paper we consider a competitive economy with flows of materials from extraction via recycling to landfilling … stimulates recycling as expected. But it also increases primary material extraction and - possibly - the total waste flow, and it … reduces the recycling ratio. …

Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper … presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste … recycling firms to compensate for the savings in disposal costs. We study trade between resource poor economies exporting final …

This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent … data on recycling rates in the United States and across all OECD countries. The OECD data suggest the average aggregate … recycling rate across member countries appears to have plateaued over the past several decades. Data from the United States on …

concentration (which accounts for overlapping ownership) leads to declines in employment, real wages, and the labor share. Moreover …, if the goal is to foster employment then (i) controlling common ownership and reducing concentration are complements and … pecuniary externality, an increase in common ownership can stimulate the economy when the elasticity of labor supply is high …

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 heterogenous countries with respect to their capital … harmonization is sustainable or not crucially depends on the capital endowment of the median country relative to those of the large …

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical … this framework aging increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Therefore, there will be more labor …- and less capital-saving technical change. Unless there are contemporaneous knowledge spillovers across innovating firms …