infonet-economy

We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License Raj – a system of central controls regulating entry and productionnactivity in this sector – vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are found to be unequal across Indian states with differentnlabor market regulations. In particular, following delicensing...

We present a new method for quantitatively documenting concerns for economic fairness. In particular we focus on the method’s potential for identifying variation in
prosociality within and across societies. Specifically, we conducted multiple dictator games per player in two small-scale societies. Each game presented the decision maker with a choice between an equitable and an...

This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents’ production technologies display learning effects and agents’ rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that whether learning effects are over- or under-exploited crucially depends on whether learning...

In the heart of the Great Crisis, amidst great uncertainty and concerns surrounding the future of capitalism, John Maynard Keynes launched his optimistic prophecy that growth and technological change would allow mankind to solve its economic problem within ancentury. He envisioned a world where people would work much less and be less oppressednby the satisfaction of material needs....

Central bankers' conventional wisdom suggests that nominal interest rates should be raised to implement a lower inflation target. In contrast, I show that the standard New Keynesian monetary model predicts that nominal interest rates should bendecreased to attain this goal. Real interest rates, however, are virtually unchanged. These results also hold in recent vintages of New...

This paper asks whether tax cycles can represent the optimal policy in a modelnwithout any extrinsic uncertainty. I show, in an economy without capital and where labor is the only choicenvariable (a Lucas-Stokey economy), that a large class of preferences exists, where cycles are optimal, as well as a large class where they are not. The larger government expenditures are, the larger...

Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a mass of producers and users of knowledge interact through a distribution medium. This paper considers the consequences of this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In particular, it examines how the ranking schemes applied by the distribution technology affect the...

This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model à la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-related production cost advantages of a large economy and we investigate how the existence of national transport costs influences both the structure of industrial production and the pattern...

Temporary fluctuations of the U.S. consumption-wealth ratio, cay, predict excess returns onninternational stock markets at the business cycle frequency. This finding is the reflection of a common, temporary component in national stock markets. Exposure to this common component explains up to 60 percent of the covariation among long-horizon returns on the G7nstock markets for the time...