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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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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941738
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310806
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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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Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly
Darby, Michael R. - 2011
The basic competitive model with freely available technology is suited for static industries but misleading as applied to major innovative economies for which development of new technologies equals in magnitude around 10% of gross domestic investment. We distinguish free generic technology from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757081
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Financial Integration and Liquidity Crises
Castiglionesi, Fabio - 2017
The paper analyzes the effects of financial integration on the stability of the banking system. Financial integration allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We show under which conditions financial integration...
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International Financial Integration and Crisis Contagion
Devereux, Michael B. - 2014
International financial integration helps to diversify risk but also may increase the trans- mission of crises across countries. We provide a quantitative analysis of this trade-off in a two-country general equilibrium model with endogenous portfolio choice and collateral con- straints....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046603
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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and the Distribution of Income
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015
A general equilibrium model featuring multiple realistic sources of financial frictions is developed to study how different constraints interact in equilibrium. We highlight, distinguish, and evaluate their differential impacts and rich interactions. The economic impact of financial inclusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030631