作者:TRUMBULL, WN; WALL, HJ
摘要:In 1990, the net amount of economic aid, or official development assistance, to all recipients from all multilateral and bilateral sources was about US$62 billion, an amount that exceeded the GDPs of Greece and Portugal. Despite the size of this yearly transfer there has been no rigorous modelling and estimation of the criteria by which it occurs. As a result, there is little agreement about the extent to which ODA is allocated according to the needs of the recipient countries. The purpose of ...
作者:MARQUIS, MH; REFFETT, KL
摘要:In modern economies, multiple means of payment associated with the exchange of goods coexist. This paper examines one such payment system in an economy with endogenous technological change. It consists of money and a costly accounting system that receives spillovers from new technologies. Positive nominal interest rates are shown to produce welfare losses by inducing a reallocation of human capital into the payment system, and out of the production of final goods and new knowledge. The former ...
作者:JOHN, A; PECCHENINO, R
作者单位:Michigan State University
摘要:This article analyses the potential conflict between economic growth and the maintenance of environmental quality in an overlapping generations model. Short-lived individuals make decisions which have long-lasting effects on both factor productivity and the environment. The model provides a theoretical explanation of observed correlations between environmental quality and income, whereby economic growth is associated first with declines, then improvements, in environmental quality. It suggests...