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The paper provides a selective survey of the literature on the Feldstein-Horioka paradox. The observed high correlation between national savings and domestic investment emerges as a robust empirical regularity. If this regularity is to be attributed to low capital mobility (due to government...
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Lobbying activities bias the political decision making process. There tend to be deviations from the socially optimal solutions. This paper shows that, in an international context, this bias is not necessarily harmful from an economic-welfare point of view. It may correct externalities that...
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Consider a country possessing a specific production factor in fixed quantity, producing in combination with land a stream of services through time. Some of these services are consumed domestically. The bulk of it, however, is consumed world-wide. Despite the services the country provides to the...
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and theory for a long time. The paper surveys the theoretical investigations on this topic. The early modeis which analyse …
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Zur Vermeidung der als 'Treibhauseffekt' bekannten Klimaveränderung werden zur Zeit fast ausschließlich Maßnahmen der Kohlendioxid-Reduzierung diskutiert, obwohl neben CO2 noch eine Reihe weiterer Luftschadstoffe für den Treibhauseffekt verantwortlich sind . Im folgenden wird in Abschnitt 1...
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industrial policy in support of high-tech industries. The paper reviews arguments based on endogenous growth theory and strategic … trade theory and surveys the most relevant pieces of empirical evidence, notably on external learning effects and …
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they at the theory level (where most economists generally believe such matters start), or do they appear, as I believe … theoretical level? Indeed, is the study of where to start (at the level of policy, at the level of theory, or even deeper) really …
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Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...
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In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, wie sich auf Basis der zugrundeliegenden technisch-ökonomischen Zusammenhänge eine Vermeidungskostenfunktion für den Fall der Endof- Pipe-Behandlung produktionsspezifischer Schadstoffemissionen konstruieren läßt. Im Gegensatz zu den üblicherweise in der...
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