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In this paper, we compare growth and welfare effects of various budget rules within an endogenous growth model with … affect the long run growth rate compared to a balanced budget while the growth rate is increased by a golden rule. Welfare … consumption should adhere to a balanced budget rather than a golden rule or a fixed deficit rule from a welfare point of view. …
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such a net brain gain results in an increase in welfare and growth due to education's positive externalities. This paper …) the impact on welfare and growth is smaller as well (for any brain gain size); iii) a positive brain gain is likely to … the stock of human capital may have a negative impact on welfare and growth; and v) in a dynamic framework, the paper …
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This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line....
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switch to private provision welfare improving for all agents including public employees. …
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We construct a tractable endogenous growth model with production externalities in which the public capital stock augments investment specific technological change. We characterize the first best fiscal policy and show that there exist several labor and capital tax-subsidy combinations that...
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This paper examines how revenues from a natural resource interact with growth and welfare in an overlapping generations … abundance of the revenue. Abundant revenues may harm growth, but growth and welfare can be oppositely affected. We also provide …
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While there is little doubt that innovations drive economic growth, their effects on well-being are less clear. One reason for this are ambivalent effects of innovations on well-being that result from pecuniary and technological externalities of innovations, argued to be inevitable. Another...
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Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with...
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