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Greek Debt and American Debt: Graduation Speech at the University of Athens Economics and Business School
Geanakoplos, John - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2011
This is the graduation speech I gave on receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Athens Economics and Business School. I talk about my Greek family, about how I got interested in economics, and then how in the 1990s I came to think about default, collateral, and leverage as the...
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa; Meghir, Costas - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
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The Health of Nations: The Contribution of Improved Health to Living Standards
Nordhaus, William D. - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2002
Nations generally measure their economic performance using the yardstick of national output and income. It is not … widely recognized, however, that conventional measures of national income and output exclude the value of improvements in the … of the measurement of national income, examines some of the shortcomings of traditional concepts, and proposes a new …
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