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How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes predictions about investment in...
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obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self-financing …We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we …
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In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains … from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research … and development, brands, and organization capital. What distinguishes technology capital from other forms of capital is …
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Are market-based or bank-based financial systems better at financing the expansion of industries that depend heavily on … external finance, facilitating the formation of new establishments, and improving the efficiency of capital allocation across … overall financial development boost industry growth, new establishment formation, and efficient capital allocation, having a …
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The importance of financial markets and international capital flows have increased greatly since the 1990s. How does …
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In Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty uses the market value of tradeable assets to measure both productive … capital and wealth. As a measure of wealth this is problematic because it ignores the value of human capital and transfer … assets. The approach also incorrectly identifies capital gains due to reduced discount rates as increases in the capital …
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information technology and the computer age, induced firms to shift away from labor and toward capital. The lower price of … influencing factor shares such as increasing profits, capital-augmenting technology growth, and the changing skill composition of …
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on the financing of 1157 worldwide private equity deals from 1980 to 2008. Buyout leverage is cross-sectionally unrelated … availability of financing impacts booms and busts in the private equity market, and that agency problems between private equity … funds and their investors can affect buyout capital structures …
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We develop a rational expectations framework to study the consequences of alternative means to resolve the "unfunded liabilities'' problem---unsustainable exponential growth in federal Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending with no plan to finance it. Resolution requires specifying a...
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European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment … adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these … labor adjustment costs. Nations favoring labor expenditures as the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed …
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