Three Essays On Economic Structure And Resource Allocation
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Three Essays On Economic Structure And Resource Allocation
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Author : Chun Kei Tsang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Three Essays On Economic Structure And Resource Allocation written by Chun Kei Tsang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with China categories.
This thesis aims at studying the issues of economic structure and resource allocation in development. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to economic development and gives an overview of this thesis. Chapter 2 reviews some theories and models about economic structure and structural change and points out that resource allocation is a critical factor in changing the economic structure. Five characteristics of economic structure and structural change are summarized. Essay 1 in Chapter 3 investigates the relationship between competitiveness and economic growth. Adopting the Global Competitiveness Index to represent competitiveness, we empirically show that there is a two-way causal relationship between competitiveness and economic growth. We further identify that the relationship between competitiveness and economic growth change in different development stages. Specifically, better competitiveness can enhance economic growth but not vice versa in developing countries. We therefore relate such a difference to the ability to transform resources into competitiveness. This is fundamentally a question about resource allocation. Finally, we link structural change with economic growth and show that enhancing competitiveness is equivalent to improving the capacity to change the economic structure. Essay 2 in Chapter 4 studies the impacts of sub-optimal resource allocation on economic growth by applying a new model to the case of the effectiveness of official development assistance (ODA). This new model analyzes economic growth through structural change by the difference between the observed and optimal levels of competitiveness. Regarding the positive and negative impacts of foreign aid on the receiving country in the literature, we show that the net impact of ODA depends on the value of bias caused by inefficient allocation of resources and the adoption of a biased value system. As a result, both positive and negative views of ODA in the literature are somewhat correct. In principle, ODA does work in the sense of helping needy countries providing they can allocate such additional resources efficiently. The cruel truth is that most receivers of ODA are unable to transform these resources to productive uses and even lower their economic growth. The development aid country donors or global institutions may therefore have to review their existing policy for granting aid.Essay 3 in Chapter 5 introduces a new framework to study two important structural issues in China: regional fragmentation and ownership distortion. We extend the output-oriented structural efficiency measure to include subgroups to evaluate potential gains of improving resource allocation within and among subgroups. The new framework is then applied to China’s industrial sector. Applying our new method for policymaking, the empirical results advocate prioritizing ownership reform over regional reform in China. Specifically, by improving resource allocation among different ownerships, outputs of the whole industrial sector can be increased by 21% of the observed level. In contrast, the potential gains of reallocating resources between western and non-western regions are less than 1%. Such a conclusion cannot be drawn from other existing models of efficiency analysis. Finally, Chapter 6 concludes the whole thesis.
Three Essays On The State Of Economic Science
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Author : Tjalling Charles Koopmans
language : en
Publisher: A. M. Kelley
Release Date : 1991
Three Essays On The State Of Economic Science written by Tjalling Charles Koopmans and has been published by A. M. Kelley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
Three Essays On Social Structure And Its Implications
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Author : Pauline Morault
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Three Essays On Social Structure And Its Implications written by Pauline Morault and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
This Ph.D. thesis emphasizes the importance of social structure to understand some economic, social and political outcomes. The first chapter is a political economy piece exploring the impact of the social structure of the elite on resource allocation, scapegoating strategies and violence in developing countries. It extends the framework of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) by distinguishing between a political elite and an economic elite composed of a rich ethnic minority. It then explores how the degree of social integration between the two elites impacts equilibria in this economy. The second chapter studies how familial decision-making impact marriage patterns in societies where arranged marriages are the dominant form of matchmaking. It introduces families into the Becker-Shapley-Shubik (1971,1973) matching model and defines a concept of familial stability. It then compares individual-stable to family-stable matchings. It shows that family-stable matchings depend on the familial structure. The third chapter analyzes the structure of the family network resulting from arranged marriages. When parents arrange the marriages of their children with spouses from different families, this creates marital connections between families. The study considers a matching model in which parents first allocate an investment to their children and then arrange their marriages. It then explores how social norms, sex ratio and revenue dispersion impact network connectivity.
Economic Structure And Performance
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Author : Moises Syrquin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Economic Structure And Performance written by Moises Syrquin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Business & Economics categories.
Essays In The Economics Of Uncertainty
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Author : Jean-Jacques Laffont
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1980
Essays In The Economics Of Uncertainty written by Jean-Jacques Laffont and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Business & Economics categories.
These three elegant essays develop principles central to the understanding of the diverse ways in which imperfect information affects the distribution of resources, incentives, and the evaluation of economic policy. The first concerns the special role that information plays in the allocation process when it is possible to improve accuracy through private investment. The common practice of hiring "experts" whose information is presumably much better than their clients' is analyzed. Issues of cooperative behavior when potential group members possess diverse pieces of information are addressed. Emphasis is placed on the adaptation of the "core" concept from game theory to the resource allocation model with differential information. The second essay deals with the extent to which agents can influence the random events they face. This is known as moral hazard, and in its presence there is a potential inefficiency in the economic system. Two special models are studied: the role of moral hazard in a monetary economy, and the role of an outside adjudicatory agency that has the power to enforce fines and compensation. The final essay discusses the problem of certainty equivalence in economic policy. Conditions under which a full stochastic optimization can be calculated by solving a related, much simpler "certainty equivalence" problem are developed. The reduction in the complexity of calculation involved is very great compared with the potential loss of efficiency.
Three Essays With Spatial Considerations In Natural Resource And Development Economics
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Author : Jacob Hochard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Three Essays With Spatial Considerations In Natural Resource And Development Economics written by Jacob Hochard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Development economics categories.
Bioeconomic models routinely account for the joint-determinedness of ecological and economic systems. Ecological systems provide benefits, or ecosystem services, to humans and human actions influence the provisioning of those services. To analyze tradeoffs in management, these services are often combined in a welfare function. Simplifying assumptions, designed to preserve model tractability, are common. These assumptions, in some cases, limit the scope of the resulting policy recommendations. We show that analytical tractability can be preserved and policy recommendations improved when finer ecological detail is employed in the specification of ecosystem services. Using a game-theoretic approach, an application of this concept is made by modeling three foundations of the behavioral ecology of wolves: refuge-seeking behavior, optimal foraging group size and territoriality. These behavioral patterns allow us to predict the density of wolves within and across management jurisdictions, which enables us to specify visitor congestion effects on public land, frequency of wildlife viewing, harvest success rates, the number of recreation days within a harvest season and harvest season length. This approach makes a notable contribution by examining management tradeoffs not only between but also within competing consumptive and non-consumptive ecosystem services. Chapter 2: Market accessibility and economic growth: Insights from a new dimension of inequality We modify an endogenous growth model to allow for households' differential access to markets. Such local production spillovers highlight a new dimension of inequality arising through geographic remoteness and predicts divergent growth patterns among countries with poorly market-integrated households. The model is tested using an instrumental variables approach that takes advantage of the relationship between market accessibility and exogenous geographic features of the landscape as well as spatial data derived from a unique global dataset characterizing country-level market accessibility distributions. We find evidence that production spillovers diminish concavely across space before tapering off convexly in remote areas. This result suggests that the marginal household exhibiting production spillovers is located approximately five hours from the nearest market center. The policy implications are that governments could adopt pro-growth inequality-reducing policies using targeted infrastructural investments, relocation subsidies or income redistribution mechanisms. Based on our spillover threshold estimates, these policies would be access-equality enhancing for 5.1 billion people globally and access-equality reducing for 825 million people globally. We also present findings that growth divergence occurs among countries with geographically less pervasive markets. This outcome may explain why wealthier nations exhibit divergent growth paths relative to poorer nations. Chapter 3: Poverty and the spatial dependence of public infrastructure Despite mounting evidence that public infrastructure plays a critical role in poverty alleviation, this branch of empirical work remains focused on highly-localized household-level studies and remains disconnected from economy-wide studies of growth, poverty and distribution. Because public capital investments are often made by central governments, it is possible analyses quantifying local impacts of infrastructural projects are of insufficient scale to capture the consequences of inefficient public expenditures. We use time-varying and georeferenced poverty and public infrastructure data to determine the channels through which public infrastructure influences poverty dynamics. Results suggest that the direct poverty increasing effect of infrastructure-adjusted growth is approximately twice as large in magnitude as the direct poverty-decreasing effect of poverty-adjusted growth. We also find that infrastructure-adjusted growth increases poverty-adjusted growth. After accounting for this amplifying indirect effect of public infrastructure on poverty trends, the positive and negative effects of public infrastructure investment offset and poverty reduction is driven primarily by the poverty-adjusted growth rate. These results highlight that a successful poverty reduction policy will not only make investments in public transportation infrastructure but must also identify those populations in critical need. Our results are consistent with the notion that reckless investment in public capital could perpetuate instead of alleviate geographic poverty traps.
Perspectives On An Economic Future
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Author : Shripad Pendse
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1991-01-30
Perspectives On An Economic Future written by Shripad Pendse and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-30 with Business & Economics categories.
The decade of the 1990s has opened on a note of major change, with events in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and South Africa moving at an astonishing pace, both on the political and economic fronts. These changes have brought into focus vital issues of political economy, a subject that this collection of essays carefully examines. Written for readers with or without a background in economics, the essays provide a perspective on economic systems, the underlying issues involved in creating an economic constitution, and the choices a society makes in designing an economy. Economists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and the United States offer a stimulating variety of ideological and methodological perspectives. The collection begins with an introduction that reviews basic concepts of economic systems, including goals, the role of government, and efficiency and equity. The three essays that comprise Part I discuss basic issues in economic systems, and address the question of efficiency and equity in a free market from various ideological perspectives. Part II provides three proposals for reforming economic systems, including discussions of planning in a decentralized society and a highly interventionist economic and social system. The work concludes with three essays that draw historical and international comparisons between economic systems, and contrast the economic policies and performances of several Western countries and Japan. Although the contributors are professional economists, and include a Nobel Prize winner and the former president of the American Economic Association, their essays are written in a nontechnical language that will allow readers without an economic background to follow their arguments. This unique collection of essays will be a valuable supplement to courses in current economic problems, comparative economic systems, and development economics, as well as a useful resource for both public and academic libraries.
Systems Of Economic Relationships
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Author : John Lepper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Systems Of Economic Relationships written by John Lepper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Economics categories.
"Rhizoids or technical/social/economic networks"--Pref.
Three Essays In Development And International Economics
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Author : Guy Berger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Three Essays In Development And International Economics written by Guy Berger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Three Essays On Intrahousehold Resource Allocation In Indonesia
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Author : Mary Isabel Ames
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Three Essays On Intrahousehold Resource Allocation In Indonesia written by Mary Isabel Ames and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.