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This paper analyzes a general-equilibrium model in which each person can choose to be either a producer or a predator. This model shows how predation breaks the link between the interpersonal distribution of productive resources and the interpersonal distribution of consumption. Specifically, we...
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We construct a model integrating the efficiency wage model of Shapiro-Stiglitz (1984) with the matching …
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to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological … separately estimate technical efficiency change, which is a component of TFP growth, and we find that, in general, the estimated … technical efficiency of the high-performing East Asian economies was not out of line with the rest of the world. …
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'durability' and 'recyclability'. Both efficiency and sustainability aspects are taken into account. It turns out (a) that … in case where markets for product design are absent the efficiency restoring tax-subsidy schemes may significantly differ …
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One decade ago the formerly socialist, east-European economies collapsed. They are facing the diffcult and complex task to transform and to modernize their economic structures. In the beginning, many economists believed that the process of transition could be done fast and easily....
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We study the incentives towards horizontal merger among firms when the amount of capital is the strategic variable. The type of firms we focus on is workers' cooperatives, but our conclusions apply also to employment-constrained profit maximisers. Within a simple oligopoly model, we prove that...
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the equity and efficiency tradeoff and to assess the impact of inequality changes on the optimal taxation of necessity and …
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