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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Will social security and Medicare remain viable as the U.S. population is aging? : an update

Bohn, Henning - 2003

cost-benefit tradeoffs in a median voter setting. For a variety of assumptions and policy alternatives, I find that social …

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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...

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Financing retirement in the European Union

Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2002

This paper explores how EU countries can address various challenges (including the aging of the population) affecting their systems of old-age income support. It presents two scenarios illustrating the most important uncertainties surrounding the major developments that affect the pension...

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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act

Aura, Saku - 2002

This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the...

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The green paradox : a supply-side view of the climate problem

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2015

Why have policies aimed at reducing the demand for carbon not succeeded in slowing down global carbon extraction and CO2 emissions, and why have carbon prices failed to increase over the last three decades? This comment argues that this is because of the Green Paradox, i.e. - (the anticipation...

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Competition and innovation in automobile markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...

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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity

Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...

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New forms of democracy

Gersbach, Hans - 2022

difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …

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The democratic window of opportunity : evidence from riots in sub-Saharan Africa

Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel - 2014

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

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