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The Ifo industry growth accounting database
Roehn, Oliver (contributor); Eicher, Theo S. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003495711
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Effects of unilateral climate policy on terms of trade, capital accumulation, and welfare in a world economy
Farmer, Karl (contributor); Friedl, Birgit (contributor);  … - 2008
We present a two-good, two-country overlapping generations model where emissions arise from production and each country has a domestic emission permit system. When one country unilaterally reduces her cap on emissions, her output available for domestic and foreign consumption diminishes more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749461
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Physical capital estimates for China's provinces, 1952-2015 and beyond
Holz, Carsten A.; Yue, Sun - 2017
Capital estimates are widely used in economic growth and productivity studies, for profitability considerations and wealth accounting exercises. Yet the calculation of "capital" frequently receives only cursory attention, despite the challenges posed by conceptual difficulties, the complexity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653808
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Understanding PRC investment statistics
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of … dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly … understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned economy, comes with severe limitations in terms of data coverage and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165950
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Estimated US manufacturing production capital and technology based on an estimated dynamic economic model
Chen, Baoline (contributor); Zadrozny, Peter A. (contributor) - 2005
Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except at disaggregated levels and must be estimated prior to being used in empirical analysis. We develop and apply a new estimation method, based on advances in economics, statistics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003120218
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Sources of the German productivity demise : tracing the effects of industry-level ICT investment
Eicher, Theo S. (contributor); Roehn, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462870
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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects : a plethora of systematic biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997569
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One chance in a million : altruism and the bone marrow registry
Bergstrom, Theodore C. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598837
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The macroeconomics of TANSTAAFL
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2011
This paper shows that dynamic inefficiency can occur in dynamic general equilibrium models with fully optimizing, infinitely-lived households even in a situation with underinvestment. We identify necessary conditions for such a possibility and illustrate it in a standard R&D-based growth model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380412
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The child adoption marketplace : parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary R.; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388358