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Misallocation, Economic Growth, and Input-Output Economics
Jones, Charles I. - 2011
One of the most important developments in the growth literature of the last decade is the enhanced appreciation of the role that the misallocation of resources plays in helping us understand income differences across countries. Misallocation at the micro level typically reduces total factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130964
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Assessing International Efficiency
Heathcote, Jonathan - 2013
This paper is structured in three parts. The first part outlines the methodological steps, involving both theoretical and empirical work, for assessing whether an observed allocation of resources across countries is efficient. The second part applies the methodology to the long-run allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083395
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Roads to prosperity without environmental poverty : the role of impatience
Dioikitopoulos, Evangelos V.; Ghosh, Sugata; Karydas, … - In: Economics letters 186 (2020), pp. 1-4
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Individual preferences and the exponential growth bias
Königsheim, C.; Lukas, Moritz; Nöth, Markus - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 145 (2018), pp. 352-369
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Political party negotiations, income distribution, and endogenous growth
Chang, Roberto - In: Journal of monetary economics 41 (1998) 2, pp. 227-255
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A Positive Model of Growth and Pollution Controls
Jones, Larry; Manuelli, Rody - 2021
The most recent addition to the economics of gloom concerns the interplay between income and environmental degradation. The main question raised is whether or not continued environmental degradation is a necessary part of the process of industrialization. Will pollution continue to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237939
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148374
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In Search of the Holy Grail : Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance
Mukand, Sharun; Rodrik, Dani - 2021
We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country's own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little 'policy experimentation.' Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...
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Trend inflation, wage and price rigidities, and productivity growth
Amano, Robert A.; Moran, Kevin; Murchison, Stephen; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 56 (2009) 3, pp. 353-364
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Does NNP growth indicate welfare improvement?
Asheim, Geir B.; Weitzman, Martin L. - In: Economics letters 73 (2001) 2, pp. 233-239
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