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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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Deep dynamics

Gottfries, Nils; Mickelsson, Glenn; Stadin, Karolina - 2021

How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand this, we estimate a reduced-form model using firm-level panel dataand we construct a theoretical model that can match the estimated impulse-response functions.A combination of...

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Decreasing returns to scale for the small country due to scarcity or indivisibility - A Test on Sport

Glejser, Herbert - 2000

This paper envisages economies of scale - or rather, diseconomies of low scale - caused in small nations by a sometimes acute shortage of talent and to indivisibility of teams: for example, a small country such as Iceland or Luxembourg cannot participate in an international football tournament...

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Are donors afraid of charities' core costs? : scale economies in non-profit provision and charity selection

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - 2014

We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...

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

Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M. - 2011

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

Grossmann, Volker (contributor) - 2008

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