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This paper examines the choice of government expenditure on public goods and transfer payments (in the form of pension) under majority voting in an overlapping generations model, in which government expenditure is tax-?nanced on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis. The condition required for majority...
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Bliss [Bliss, C., 2008. Multiple equilibrium in the Diamond capital model. Economics Letters 100, 143–145] finds …
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The effect of inflation on the capital stock is considered in an overlapping generations framework with a Cash …
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does not, corresponding to human capital and signal invest- ment, respectively. The question is how individuals determine … and the poor invest in both types of education. We argue that the ratio of human capital to signal investment is a U …-inequality, and as a result, the ratio of human capital to signal investment changes in a U-shaped form during the transition to the …
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change causes a shift in allocations away from bequests in favor of education- leading to a decline in domestic capital …
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This paper analyzes overlapping-generations models where natural capital is owned by selfish agents. Transfers in favor … when other assets are available, e.g. man-made capital, claims on monopoly rents, and R&D investment. Transfers raise the …
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Employed technologies differ vastly across countries. Within countries many technologies that would obviously improve firms’ efficiency are not adopted. This paper explains these observations by emphasizing that a new technology positively affects workers by lowering prices and increasing...
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