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Aggregate Consequences of Innovation and Informality

Schipper, Tyler (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

The fundamental question in development economics is what causes some countries to become more prosperous than others. The literature, starting with Hall and Jones (1999), has identified differences in total factor ...
Bank-based versus Market-based Financial Systems: A Growth-theoretic Analysis

Chakraborty, Shankha; Ray, Tridip (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-02-01)

We study bank-based and market-based financial systems in an endogenous growth model. Lending to firms is fraught with moral hazard as owner-managers may reduce investment profitability to enjoy private benefits. Bank ...
Battling Infection, Fighting Stagnation

Chakraborty, Shankha; Papageorgiou, Chris (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2010-09)

Why are some countries mired in poverty and ill health? Can policy facilitate their transition to sustained growth and better living standards? We offer answers using a dynamic model of disease and development. Endogenous ...
Behavioral Biases in General Equilibrium: Implications for Wealth Inequality and Human Capital Formation

Nighswander, Tristan (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

My research focuses on the integration of behavioral economics into well understood general equilibrium macroeconomic models populated by overlapping generations of heterogeneous agents. Specifically, I analyze the ...
Costly Intermediation and the Poverty of Nations

Chakraborty, Shankha; Lahiri, Amartya (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-01-01)

Distortions in private investment due to credit frictions, and in public investment due to corruption and bureaucratic inefficiencies, have both been suggested as important factors in accounting for the cross-country per ...
Culture and Economic Growth

Thompson, Jonathan (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

The most fundamental question in economics is what causes some countries to prosper. An emerging literature has focused on the role of culture in determining growth. I interpret culture as "the collective programming of ...
The Development and Structure of Financial Systems

Chakraborty, Shankha; Ray, Tridip (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-11-01)

We introduce monitored bank loans and non-monitored tradeable securities as sources of external finance for firms in a dynamic general equilibrium model. Due to frictions arising from moral hazard, access to credit and ...
Endogenous Lifetime and Economic Growth

Chakraborty, Shankha (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-01-26)

Conventional wisdom attributes the severity of mortality in poorer countries to widespread poverty and inadequate living conditions. This paper considers the possibility that persistent poverty may arise, in turn, from a ...
Essays on India's Economic Development

Gupta, Saurabh (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

This dissertation is on the economic development of India during the past three decades with a focus on its changing industrial and household structure. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction of the Indian economy and ...
Inequality, Industrialization and Financial Structure

Chakraborty, Shankha; Ray, Tridip (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-01-01)

We introduce monitored bank loans and non-monitored tradeable securities as sources of external finance for firms in a dynamic general equilibrium model. Due to frictions arising from moral hazard, access to credit and ...
Labor And Financial Market Frictions In Developing Economies

Duong, Hoa (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

This dissertation investigates the implications of frictions in labor and financial markets, with a focus on developing economies. Through theoretical and empirical analyses, I first analyze the effects of a large informal ...
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Poverty and Inequality

Allen, Jeffrey (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

This dissertation examines the macroeconomic effects of poverty and inequality. The second chapter considers the effect of poverty and subsistence consumption constraints on economic growth in a two-sector occupational ...
Mortality, fertility, and child labor

Chakraborty, Shankha; Das, Mausumi (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-12)

We discuss how child labor problems may persist in developing countries when adult mortality risks are endogenous. Children provide current consumption through child labor and future consumption via an informal social ...
Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality

Chakraborty, Shankha; Das, Mausumi (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-03-20)

Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. We introduce ...
What do Information Frictions do?

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Chakraborty, Shankha (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-02-14)

Numerous researchers have incorporated labor or credit market frictions within simple neoclassical models to (i) facilitate quick departures from the Arrow-Debreu world, thereby opening up the role for institutions, (ii) ...