We believe that what most authors have in mind when referring to the “most redistributive country” is a tax/transfer schedule that is most redistributive across all pre‐tax/transfer income distributions. To measure each ...

This paper presents a distributional argument for the use of supply-side climate policies whereby carbon emissions are controlled through (i) depletion quotas or (ii) permanent confiscation of a fraction of the in situ ...

This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned ...

This thesis focuses on the topic of funding ecosystem for start-ups in China. The number of newly-registered enterprises in China has surged in the last decade. The developing evolution of start-ups is the reflection of ...

This paper provides an accounting exercise for the secular movement of China s saving and investment and explores how its saving and investment can be evolved in the decades ahead. To this end, we calibrate the Neoclassical ...

China’s aggregate economic activity has increased and the national economy has developed rapidly since the reform and opening-up policy was carried out after 1978. The GDP growth rate has kept over 10 percent since 2004. ...

The Norwegian laundry detergent market is highly concentrated. Throughout the history of industry, Lilleborg, has had an almost monopolistic position in the market with only a few competitors, and none of comparable size. ...

The effects of a changing age distribution on Norwegian aggregate consumption are analysed in this dissertation. This is done by estimating a consumption function which controls for age structure effects. Both multivariate ...

This paper develops an agent-based trade model, and then uses that model to test the hypothesis of whether the absence of sailable rivers on the African continent could have influenced its growth. Firstly, some growth ...