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Incentives in Markets, Firms and Governments

Acemoglu, Daron - 2003

Most government expenditure is on goods that yield primarily private benefits, such as education, pensions, and healthcare. We argue that markets are most advantageous in areas where high-powered incentives are desirable, but in areas where high-powered incentives stimulate unproductive...

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Fiscal Increasing Returns, Hysteresis, Real Wages and Unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1986

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed carries the disturbing implication that there is a sharp conflict between the interests of those currently employed and the unemployed because it suggests that increases in...

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Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1986

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The After Tax Rate of Return Affects Private Savings

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1984

This paper reviews theoretical argumrents and empirical evidence regarding the interest elasticity of savings. It concludes that there are strong theoretical reasons to expect an increase in after tax rates of return to increase private savings. Moreover, the empirical rrethods used in most...

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The Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations

Fatás, Antonio - 2016

The global financial crisis has permanently lowered the path of GDP in all advanced economies. At the same time, and in response to rising government debt levels, many of these countries have been engaging in fiscal consolidations that have had a negative impact on growth rates. We empirically...

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A Contagious Malady? Open Economy Dimensions of Secular Stagnation

Eggertsson, Gauti B. - 2016

other. Similarly, we find that competitiveness policies including structural labor market reforms or neomercantilist trade …

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Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

This paper develops the thesis that credit market frictions may be an important contributor to high unemployment in … market imperfections, so unemployment rises and remains high for an extended period. The data show that there has not been … industries is lower than in the U.S.. This suggests that although credit market imperfections are unlikely to have been the major …

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then...

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