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Intangible capital is an important factor of production in modern economies that is generally neglected in business … cycle analyses. We demonstrate that intangible capital can have a substantial impact on business cycle dynamics, especially … if the intangible is complementary with production capacity. We focus on customer capital: the capital embodied in the …
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This paper presents a model of fertility, which is specific for the industrialization that took place during the nineteenth century and which was concurrent with the demographic transition that occurred over the period. While previous research on demographic transition assumed altruism as the...
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The authors examine the relative importance of the growth of physical and human capital and the growth of total factor …
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corporate tax borne by capital and labor and the efficiency effects of corporate income tax. The data for the study is compiled … period 2000-15. Our empirical estimates suggest that in India capital bears more of the burden of corporate taxes than labor … capital, it confirms the existing empirical results in the context of India. …
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analysis is conducted at two primary levels of abstraction - "capital in general" (where competition between individual … located at the level of "capital in general" and the analysis in the third volume is located at the level of "many capitals …
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We scrutinize the monetary transmission mechanism in New-Keynesian models, focusing on the role of capital, the key …
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We study the behavior of the US labor share over the past 70 years. We find that the capitalization of intellectual property products in the national income and product accounts entirely explains - in a purely accounting sense - the observed decline of the US labor share. We assess the...
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motive for expectation management that aims towards the manipulation of equilibrium prices of government debt in a favorable …
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We examine the impact of different degrees of fiscal feedback on debt in an economy with nominal rigidities where …
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In this paper I test two models of strategic debt behavior. The general idea is that if a government anticipates the … possibility of defeat in the next election it will try to use the debt strategically in order to influence the policy of its … successor. Previous empirical studies have either rejected the strategic explanation of debt or have not been able to isolate …
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