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Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...
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The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...
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Marx made significant contributions to macroeconomics, laying the grounds for both Keynes's theory of aggregate demand and Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction. His law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall parallels Alvin Hansen's theory of secular stagnation which has recently...
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By granting intracompany loans to their foreign affiliates, multinational firms may reduce their tax liability abroad. Many countries have legislated thin-capitalization rules (TCRs) that limit the allowable levels of intracompany loans or restrict interest deductibility if certain thresholds...
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This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a … repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three heterogenous countries with respect to their capital … harmonization is sustainable or not crucially depends on the capital endowment of the median country relative to those of the large …
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An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical … this framework aging increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Therefore, there will be more labor …- and less capital-saving technical change. Unless there are contemporaneous knowledge spillovers across innovating firms …
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transfers over this period is taken into account. We show that the increase in capital's share of total income and the presence … of capital-entrepreneurial skill complementarity are two key features that help support the wages of ordinary workers as … the new technology diffuses. -- income inequality ; skill-biased technological change ; capital-skill complementarity …
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elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa ….s theorem to show that introducing human capital accumulation in the standard way does not resolve the puzzle. However, balanced … growth is possible if education is endogenous and capital is more complementary with schooling than with raw labor. We …
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