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result, Mises' critique that socialism could not achieve a rational economic order came to be debated throughout the 1980s … rational socialism and socialist markets helped to justify the Socialist Market Economy with Chinese Characteristics the …
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Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a potential remedy. In this paper, we derive a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations, where natives require a compensating wage differential for working in one...
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slightly decrease over time. There is a negligible loss in welfare, however, from immediately setting the R&D subsidy to its …
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We measure the welfare consequences of endogenous quality choice in imperfectly competitive markets. We introduce the … concept of a "quality markup" and measure the relative welfare consequences of market power over price and quality. For U … marginal costs, but qualities are also 23% to 55% higher than socially optimal and the welfare costs of each are similar in …
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, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided … confirm. Thus, we find that bundling of services may help realize welfare effects. …
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This paper investigates both aggregate and distributional impacts of the trade integration of China, India, and Central and Eastern Europe in a quantitative multi-country multi-sector model, comparing outcomes with and without factor market frictions. Under perfect within-country factor...
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dispersion of inflation expectations results in a lower markup dispersion and a welfare gain equivalent to a 0.79 percent …
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This paper analyzes the redistributive channel of a money financed fiscal stimulus (MFFS). It shows that the way in which this regime is implemented is crucial to determine its redistributive effects and consequently its effectiveness. In normal times, the most effective regime is a MFFS with no...
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Welfare states contribute to people's well-being in many different ways. Bringing all these contributions under a …, Germany, France, and Sweden) that represent the principal types of welfare and gender regimes, we propose ways of …, transfers, and childcare subsidies in these five countries. In so doing, we calibrate the contributions of the different welfare …
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A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...
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