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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
Bagchi, Sutirtha - 2014
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061938
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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and Inequality
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015
We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457845
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Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression : Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime
Paolera, Gerardo della - 2000
This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made any contribution to the recovery. In particular, we study Argentine macroeconomic policy as it deviated from gold-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471138
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Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery : A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in poorer countries. To fill in this gap, we implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey...
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Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2021
Is the Chinese growth miracle - a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over two decades - likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policies that have boosted growth? For all its presumed flaws, the particular approach to macroeconomic and structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316851
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Efficient Regulation
Shleifer, Andrei - 2010
Regulation of economic activity is ubiquitous around the world, yet standard theories predict it should be rather uncommon. I argue that the ubiquity of regulation is explained not so much by the failure of markets, or by asymmetric information, as by the failure of courts to solve contract and...
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Do Subsidies to Commercial R&D Reduce Market Failures? Microeconomic Evaluation Studies
Klette, Tor Jakob - 1999
A number of market failures have been associated with R&D investments and significant amounts of public money have been spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review some recent microeconomic studies evaluating effects of government sponsored commercial R&D. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471860
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets
Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela; Martino, Enrica Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the … identifica- tion leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralization that stems from differences in the average … age of buildings caused by bombings during WWII. Decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services …
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Fiscal Federalism and the Budget Impacts of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion
Gruber, Jonathan - 2020
Medicaid's federal-state matching system of financing is the nation's largest example of fiscal federalism. Using generous federal subsidies, the Affordable Care Act incentivized states to expand Medicaid, which became a state option in the aftermath of a 2012 Supreme Court ruling. As of early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482043
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Anchoring Fiscal Expectations
Leeper, Eric M. - 2009
In this lecture, I argue that there are remarkable parallels between how monetary and fiscal policies operate on the macro economy and that these parallels are sufficient to lead us to think about transforming fiscal policy and fiscal institutions as many countries have transformed monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463382