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Structural change is a relatively simple (continuous) process having restricted limit-properties. All processes which can be classified as "structural change" inherit these limit-properties. Limit-properties of processes play an important role in neoclassical growth theory. We show that (i) many...
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This paper demonstrates that increased optimism about future productivity can generate an immediate economic expansion in a neoclassical model with vintage capital and variable capacity utilization. Previous research has documented that standard neoclassical models cannot generate a simultaneous...
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that the primary conduit of policies that brought about significant growth in India was productivity that registered an … demand. In addition, we examine the effective tax rates in India and find that while investment taxes barely fluctuated … with the Japanese experience since the Second World War. -- business cycle accounting ; India ; growth ; wedges …
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This essay reviews the development of neoclassical growth theory, a unified theory of aggregate economic phenomena that was first used to study business cycles and aggregate labor supply. Subsequently, the theory has been used to understand asset pricing, growth miracles and disasters, monetary...
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Does GDP composition affect GDP growth and volatility? Typically, economies at advanced stages of development grow slower, are less volatile and have a larger share of services in GDP with respect to economies at middle stages. I propose a theory of development consistent with these three facts....
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that the primary conduit of policies that brought about significant growth in India was productivity that registered an … demand. In addition, we examine the effective tax rates in India and find that while investment taxes barely fluctuated …
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Section 2 of the Sherman Act bans monopolization of any part of interstate commerce. This essay draws on macroeconomic theory and the New Deal experience with partial repeal of the antitrust laws and cartelization of labor to examine the relationship between macroeconomic stability and the...
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**Below is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract.** We set up a general equilibrium model of a two-sector economy in which movement costs across sectors play a crucial role in explaining the cyclical fluctuations of employment, even though there is little labor reallocation...
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We demonstrate that a key empirical finding in environmental economics - The Environmental Kuznets Curve - and the core model of modern macroeconomics - the Solow model - are intimately related. Once we amend the Solow model to incorporate technological progress in abatement, the EKC is a...
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