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Christiaans, Thomas (contributor); … - 2005

farming is shown to depend on the prices of pesticide and grain. It is either optimal to use no pesticide or a moderate amount … of pesticide or to apply a chattering control. Pest eradication is never optimal. On the other hand, if the farmer takes … pesticide depending on prices as well as on the shape of the grain production function which is determined by micro parameters …

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The economics of political borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

This paper presents concepts from economic analysis that shed light on the formation and breakup of sovereign states. First, we discuss the key trade-off between economies of scale in the provision of public goods and political costs from heterogeneity of preferences. Second, we present four...

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Journey into the unknown? : economic consequences of factor market integration under increasing returns to scale

Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M. - 2011

What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but trivial. We set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level....

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Ideas production and international knowledge spillovers : digging deeper into emerging countries

Luintel, Kul Bahadur; Khan, Mosahid - 2017

Research and Development (R&D) activities of emerging countries (EMEs) have increased considerably in recent years. Recent micro studies and anecdotal evidence points to industrialized countries as the sources of knowledge in EMEs. In this context, we examine ideas production and international...

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Growth, development, and technological change

Grossmann, Volker (contributor); … - 2007

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Entrepreneurial innovation and sustained long-run growth without weak or strong scale effects

Grossmann, Volker (contributor) - 2008

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Incorporating theory-consistent endogenous markups into applied general-equilibrium Models

Markusen, James R. - 2023

-level productivity and scale effects. I show here that the incorporation of theory-based endogenous markups into AGE models is not …

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Green technology adoption under uncertainty, increasing returns, and complex adaptive dynamics

Dhami, Sanjit; Zeppini, Paolo - 2024

from complexity theory that takes account of true uncertainty and increasing returns to technology adoption. We examine …

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Economies of density, team synergies and unobserved heterogeneity : a study of home care services

Bensaïd, Bernard; Croiset, Solen; Gary-Bobo, Robert - 2022

In the home-care services industry, caregivers drive to visit patients scattered in a district and deliver various care services at the patient's home. We use a unique data set, with a standard panel structure, recording the hours of service and the exact number of miles traveled by each...

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Managerial versus production wages : offshoring, country size and endowments

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable...

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