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Untimely destruction: pestilence, war and accumulation in the long run

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Komarov, Evgenij - 2019

This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an … altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling and reproducible capital. A poverty trap exists for a wide range of … is more concave than that for the children's human capital, the only possible steady-state growth path involves full …

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Raising juveniles

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2010

, and families may choose more schooling than the minimum required by law. -- Family decision-making ; youth ; human capital …

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Should the individual voting records of central bankers be published?

Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker - 2001

We examine whether it is socially beneficial for the individual voting records of central bank council members to be published when the general public is unsure about central bankers' efficiency and central bankers are aiming for re-election. We show that publication is initially harmful since...

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Voting transparency and conflicting interests in central bank councils

Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker - 2001

This paper examines whether it is socially desirable for the individual voting records of central bank council members to be published when central bankers' preferences differ. We show that the misrepresentation of their preferences is not advantageous for central bankers although central...

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Uneven technical progress and unemployment

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2002

In a two-sector-economy with real wage rigidity, we examine how technical progress in one sector affects aggregate unemployment. We show that aggregate unemployment decreases for uneven technical change in the case of Cobb-Douglas production functions. For every type of technical progress there...

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Beware of workaholics : household preferences and individual equilibrium utility

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Haller, Hans (contributor) - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of sociological changes in the form of a shift of influence within two-member households participating in labor and product markets. The most striking effects occur when household members differ in individual preferences and enjoy positive leisure-dependent...

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Can democracy educate a society?

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Siemers, Lars (contributor) - 2005

We examine whether democratic societies can escape poverty traps. Unrestricted agenda setting with simple majority rules fail to educate a society, because education-enhancing redistribution will not occur. We show that a combination of suitable constitutional rules overcomes this impossibility...

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High compensation creates a ratchet effect

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Glazer, Amihai (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Structural reforms and the macroeconomy : the role of general equilibrium effects

Gersbach, Hans (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Learning of general equilibrium effects and the unemployment trap

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001

We examine wage bargaining when employers and labor unions do not always take all general equilibrium effects into account but learn a steady state. If agents do hardly consider general equilibrium effects, low real wages and low unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial...

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