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This paper investigates household decisions, and optimal taxation in an overlapping generations model in which … savings and growth rates. The nature of the externality's impact, however, critically depends on the rate at which labor …
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This paper investigates the effects of (``keeping up with the Joneses'' and ``learning-by-investing'') externalities, when labor productivity decreases with age. Within the framework of a continuous time overlapping generations model, the effects of the consumption externality on the propensity...
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This paper investigates the impact of externalities on economic growth in an AK model. In contrast to the existing literature, the paper considers finitely-lived agents along the continuous time, overlapping generations literature. A series of new results, not holding for infinitely-lived agent...
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determines whether or not a household's total wealth is increasing with age. If total wealth is increasing/decreasing with age …
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Abstract Medical bankruptcy was at the heart of the health care reform debate. According to Himmelstein et al. (2009), 62.1 percent of bankruptcies in the United States in 2007 were due to medical reasons. At the same time over 15 percent of Americans had no health insurance. The 2010 health...
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order to test the hypothesis, the paper estimates the effect of a common currency on China’s processing and ordinary exports … regional production networks, with final stages of assembly and exporting being increasingly concentrated in China. The short …-run dynamics indicate that the effect on China’s processing exports is more than double the corresponding effect on China …
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growing US current account deficit and, in parallel, the growing current account surpluses in China, other Asian countries … been regarded sustainable for a time being as long as China and other Asian countries continue to pursue export … system as well as instability remain. The paper stresses that the imbalance between the United States and China has been …
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), to the detriment of regional integration and pro-poor growth. However, mounting competi-tion between China and other …
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giant fast-growing countries, China and India, with the liberalised global economy. The integration is taking place under … of the global labour force with India and China’s recent integration with the international economy may have profoundly … its technological leadership. In relation to policy, the underlying question examined here is whether India and China …
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Pakistan. Consumption decisions determine savings decisions. In long term growth literature, differences in long term growth … had been explained to a large extent by differences in the rate of savings which also determine a country’s investment in … determinants of savings in Pakistan economy. The results indicate evidence of consumption smoothing and relatively stable Average …
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