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We incorporate a wage-bargaining structure in a dynamic general equilibrium model and show how this feature changes short- and long-run properties of equilibria compared with a perfectly competitive setting.We discuss how employment, capital and income shares respond to wage-setting shocks and...
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Description This half semester class presents an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, focusing on the theory of economic growth …
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This paper considers savings, investment and economic growth for India using annual time series data for the period …-Weil hypothesis; the study also finds that saving unambiguously determines investment in both the short and long runs. No evidence is … found to support the commonly accepted growth models in India, that investment is the engine of economic growth. …
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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …
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A three-period overlapping-generations model is developed to investigate the impact on human capital investment … probability of premature death leads to less investment in human capital, and consequently slower growth. We also empirically …
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capital investment and growth. …
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This paper considers an endogenous growth model with productive government spending in which overlapping generations of agents vote sequentially on policy. With sequential majority voting, there is a multiplicity of politico-economic equilibria originating from self-fulfilling policy...
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In this paper, we analyze how to utilize discount rates in intergenerational projects. Firstly, neoclassical decision-making is depicted in Ramsey and overlapping-generations models (OLG-models). Afterwards we investigate the utilization of time preference rates and opportunity cost rates in an...
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The 1980s and 1990s have been marked with a series of financial and banking crises all over the world. This turned the attention of economists to such questions as how a financial system should be structured in order to reduce the vulnerability of an economy to the risk of a crisis, or what...
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In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
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