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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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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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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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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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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 flows,...
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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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How does an increase in the size of the market due to fertility, immigration, or trade integration, affect welfare and real GDP? We study this question using a model with heterogeneous firms, fixed costs, and monopolistic competition. We decompose the change in welfare into changes in technical...
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In this paper, we study ability peer effects in secondary schools in England and identify which segments of the peer ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and...
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We propose a theory of task trade between countries that have similar relative factor endowments but may differ in size …
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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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