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Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability : a taxonomy of assumptions and results
Asheim, Geir B. - 2002
This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514087
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Subjective well-being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: April 16, 2013
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736745
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Optimal taxation and constrained inefficiency in an infinite-horizon economy with incomplete markets
Gottardi, Piero; Kajii, Atsushi; Nakajima, Tomoyuki - 2011
We study the dynamic Ramsey problem of finding optimal public debt and linear taxes on capital and labor income within a tractable infinite horizon model with incomplete markets. With zero public expenditure and debt, it is optimal to tax the risky labor income and subsidize capital, while a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273122
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The neoclassical model and the welfare costs of selection
Collard, Fabrice; Licandro, Omar - 2021
This paper embeds firm dynamics into the Neoclassical model and provides a simple framework to solve for the transitional dynamics of economies moving towards more selection. As in the Neoclassical model, markets are perfectly competitive, there is only one good and two production factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603140
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Product differentiation and oligopoly : a network approach
Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503368
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Structural reforms, growth and inequality : an overview of theory, measurement and evidence
Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017
theoretical framework for the relationship between structural reforms, economic growth and income inequality. We argue that … and political constraints play crucial roles in determining the effectiveness of reforms on economic growth and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780603
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A tale of two roads : groundwater depletion in the North China Plain
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Deng, Xiangzheng; Gong, Yazhen; … - 2023
causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340116
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Venture capital backed growth
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2002
productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409024
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Insecure property rights and growth : the roles of appropriation costs, wealth effects, and heterogeneity
Long, Ngo Van; Sorger, Gerhard - 2004
reduce the growth rate of the public capital stock. We also show that, in the interior equilibrium, the private asset can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450350
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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004
Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2004
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450868