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, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for individual industries. Key issues examined … include the role of externalities from own industry concentration (localization, or MAR externalities) versus the role of … externalities from overall diversity of the local environment (urbanization, or Jacobs externalities). In contrast to previous …
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subject to dynamic increasing returns, and pecuniary externalities that result from the factor substitution in the final goods …
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This paper assumes that workers can move from a market with high unemployment to one with low unemployment at a cost. In principle. equilibrium mobility can be greater or less than the social optimum. For most plausible parameter values. however. mobility is too low. Intuitively. mobility has a...
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presence of externalities. The paper employs a two-period, open economy framework in which the central government allocates its … externalities. This is not only because debt relief that expands the availability of current resources has positive direct income …
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The paper emphasizes the role of institutions and incentives in the presence of externalities. An economy with multiple …
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We reexamine several bodies of data on the growth of output, labor, and capital, within the context of a model that admits the possibility of an externality to the capital input. The model is an augmented version of Paul Romer's (1987) reformulation of the Solow model. Unlike Romer, however, we...
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positively on the competitive externality. We provide two examples of scenarios where these externalities are relevant. First … and local governments can use seigniorage to their advantage. The effect of competitive externalities is to increase the …
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This paper presents a simple but quite general framework for analyzing the impact of informational externalities. By … identifying the traditional pecuniary effect of these externalities which nets out,the paper greatly simplifies the problem of …
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This paper examines how the optimal Pigouvian tax should be adjusted to reflect administrative costs. Several cases are examined, depending on whether the administrative costs are fixed per firm taxed or are a function of the amount of tax collected, and on whether such costs are borne by the...
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programs to alleviate these intergenerational externalities. Specifically, the sub-optimal investment in offspring human …'s education. Less obvious externalities may result when parents underinvest in themselves because they fail to consider spillover … intergenerational externalities in greater detail …
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