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This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted to explore the sources of the productivity change. In...
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This paper establishes the existence of multiple equilibria in infinite-horizon open- economy models in which the value of tradable and nontradable endowments serves as collateral. In this environment, the economy displays self-fulfilling financial crises in which pessimistic views about the...
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indistinguishable, then congestion charges must be anonymous. Second, the time variation of congestion charges may be constrained. Do … these constraints undermine the feasibility of marginal cost pricing, and hence the applicability of the first-best theory … if the time variation of congestion charges is unconstrained, then marginal cost pricing is feasible with anonymous …
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In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift …, we investigate the relative merits of ownership and use taxes. We compare full internalisation of congestion … congestion damage rises with more trips. Ownership taxes only partially internalise congestion externalities. However, in terms …
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their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … is a public good where congestion effects are potentially important. Because the optimal class size is larger for behaved … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non …
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paper studies toll competition among private roads with congestion. The paper derives two main results. First, we find … sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium in pure strategies with strictly positive tolls. Equilibrium congestion …-of-pocket cost paid by a user, it increases the congestion cost thereby reducing the drivers' willingness to pay for using the road …
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We explore the consequences of safe asset scarcity on aggregate demand in a stylized IS-LM/Mundell Fleming environment. Acute safe asset scarcity forces the economy into a “safety trap” recession. In the open economy, safe asset scarcity spreads from one country to the other via capital...
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-migration, congestion of other local publicly provided goods may offset the direct benefits. Using the example of rural household … location choice model that incorporates missing land markets and allows for congestion in local land. Using this model, we … prediction from the model is that migration elasticities and congestion effects are especially large when land markets are …
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This study develops a model of endogenous growth based on increasing returns due to firms' technology choices. Particular attention is paid to the implications of these choices, combined with the substitution of capital for labor, on economic growth in a general equilibrium model in which the...
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At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...
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