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Using the extended Ramsey rule, the socially efficient rate is the difference between a wealth effect and a precautionary effect of economic growth. This second effect is increasing in the degree of uncertainty affecting the future. In the literature, it is usually calibrated by estimating the...
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This paper studies the difference between public production and public finance of public goods in a dynamic general equilibrium setup. By public finance, we mean that the public good is produced by private providers with the government financing their costs. When the model is calibrated to match...
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This paper studies the difference between public production and public finance of public goods in a dynamic general equilibrium setup. By public finance, we mean that the public good is produced by private providers with the government financing their costs. When the model is calibrated to match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123836
This paper studies the difference between public production and public finance of public goods in a dynamic general equilibrium setup. By public finance, we mean that the public good is produced by private providers with the government financing their costs. When the model is calibrated to match...
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Contemporary models of growth and development are founded on a category error: they ignore nature as a form of productive capital. Using as backdrop two recent books on the Indian economy that are representative of the prevailing orthodoxy, I review and in part extend an emerging literature that...
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capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we …) discounting, there is a unique low (high) growth equilibrium, regardless of the size of government. For the intermediate range of … discounting, there are multiple equilibria and the growth outcome depends on the size of government. With endogenous time …
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central recommendation and illustrative example conflates the two. The correct, consumption-based discounting method generally …
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