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Supply Responses to Digital Distribution : Recorded Music and Live Performances
Mortimer, Julie H. - 2010
Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital products. However, broader illegitimate distribution of...
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A Scorecard for Indexed Government Debt
Campbell, John Y.; Shiller, Robert J. - 2021
Within the last five years, Canada, Sweden and New Zealand have joined the ranks of the United Kingdom and other countries in issuing government bonds that are indexed to inflation. Some observers of the experience in these countries have argued that the United States should follow suit. This...
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Integrated Political Strategy
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on corporate political strategy and identifies a number of open research questions and streams for potential investigation. The paper develops a framework to explain why, when, and how a firm will pursue multi-forum political action as part of its non-market and...
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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
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Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies
Leeper, Eric M. - 2011
Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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Japanese Government Debt and Sustainability of Fiscal Policy
Doi, Takero - 2011
analyze the sustainability of the fiscal policy. We pursue three approaches to examine the sustainability. First, we calculate …
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Fiscal Stability of High-Debt Nations Under Volatile Economic Conditions
Hall, Robert E. - 2013
Using a recursive empirical model of the real interest rate, GDP growth, and the primary government deficit in the U.S., I solve for the ergodic distribution of the debt/GDP ratio. If such a distribution exists, the government is satisfying its intertemporal budget constraint. One key finding is...
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A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (Sam) : Safety Traps and Economic Policy
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2013
The global economy has a chronic shortage of safe assets which lies behind many recent macroeconomic imbalances. This paper provides a simple model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM), its recessionary safety traps, and its policy antidotes. Safety traps share many common features with...
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Game Over : Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy
Evans, Richard W. - 2014
Fiscal sustainability is one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Yet it remains difficult to quantify …
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What is a Sustainable Public Debt?
D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2015
traditional approach to evaluate debt sustainability, and examine three alternative approaches that provide useful econometric and … model-simulation tools to analyze debt sustainability. The first approach is Bohn's non-structural empirical framework based … three approaches to analyze debt sustainability in the United States and Europe after the recent surge in public debt …
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