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On the Equilibrium and Welfare Consequences of 'Keeping up with the Joneses'

Gavrel, Frédéric; Rebiere, Therese - 2015

This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...

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Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified …

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Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection

Chugh, Sanjay K.; Merkl, Christian - 2015

This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...

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The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?

Grossman, Michael - 2015

Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2013

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment

Elias, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

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Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard? Analyzing Firm-Level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure

Hagemeier, Jan; Svejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

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Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection

Chugh, Sanjay K.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018

This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...

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Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile

Clarke, Damian; Cortés Méndez, Gustavo; Vergara … - 2018

outcomes at birth. We consider both the equity and efficiency implications of program impacts, and provide a metric to compare …

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