Spendensammelnde Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPOs) verfügen verglichen mit gewinnorientierten Unternehmen ähnlicher Grösse über relativ hohe finanzielle Reserven in Form eines Finanzvermögens. Deren Höhe hängt von verschiedenen Faktoren ab, die im Rahmen der vorliegenden Studie untersucht...

Globalization increasingly involves less-developed countries (LDCs), i.e., economies which usually suffer from severe imperfections in their financial systems. Taking these imperfections seriously, we analyze how credit frictions affect the distributive impact of trade liberalizations. We find...

This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...