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A half-century of empirical work on the factor proportions theory has identified "paradoxes" and "mysteries", but has … failed to devise simple amendments that bring theory and data inot reasonable congruence. Our study considers standard and … by this data, suffice for a striking confirmation of the HOV theory. Countries export the services of abundant factors …
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In the last few years, a new area has emerged in economic theory, which goes under the heading of "incomplete … contracting". However, almos since its inception, the theory has been under attach for its lack of rigorous foundations. In this … paper, we evaluate some of the criticisms that have been made of the theory, in particular, those of Maskin and Tirole (1998 …
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As this terse historical sketch should make clear, Bohm-Bawker's concern in The Positive Theory was to explain the … convenient in discussing his theory. The Basic Model is designed to explain the rate of interest in the long -run equilibrium of …
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accumulation to the theory of competitive equilibrium over time. Finally I will make some remarks on the relations of this … literature to some recent developments in the theory of economic growth which are often referred to comprehensively as the New … Growth Theory. …
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This essay is an introduction to the recent literature on the "consistency principle" and its "converse". An allocation rule is consistent if for any problem in its domain of definition and any alternative that it selects for it, then for the associated "reduced problem" obtained by imagining...
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