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entailing movements in factor returns and shares and the wealth-income ratio. Standard data on savings cannot be reconciled with … the increase in the wealth-income ratio: there is a wealth residual. An important component of this is associated with … “wealth” are distinct, we show that appropriately defined aggregates for wealth may be (and in the case of some countries …
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Explaining why the concepts of "capital" and "wealth" are distinct, we show that appropriately defined aggregates for … wealth may be (and in the case of some countries appear to be) moving in opposite directions … entailing movements in factor returns and shares and the wealth-income ratio. Standard data on savings cannot be reconciled with …
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This paper shows that, except in certain limiting cases, competitive equilibrium with moral hazard is constrained inefficient. The first section compares the competitive equilibrium and the constrained social optimum in a fairly general model, and identifies types of market failure. Each of the...
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This paper reviews and puts into perspective recent work reassessing the first and second Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics. It assesses the implications of the Greenwald-Stiglitz theorem establishing the (constrained) Pareto inefficiency of market economies with imperfect information...
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This paper reviews and puts into perspective recent work reassessing the first and second Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics. It assesses the implications of the Greenwald-Stiglitz theorem establishing the (constrained) Pareto inefficiency of market economies with imperfect information...
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