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The Future Development Of Reits In China, Jia Sun
The Future Development Of Reits In China, Jia Sun
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Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a type of trust fund or corporation that pools the funds of a large number of investors by issuing a certificate of income and invest the raised funds in real estate projects that are managed by a specialized investment institution. The real estate investment risk is moderate, and the rent is stable, but the capital threshold is high, and it is difficult for small and medium investors to enter the market. The invention of REITs aims to solve this problem, through the collection of funds, so that small and medium investors can enter the …
Quantitative Effects Of Two Kinds Of Robots In A Neo-Classical Growth Model, Hoang Phuong Que Vu
Quantitative Effects Of Two Kinds Of Robots In A Neo-Classical Growth Model, Hoang Phuong Que Vu
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Advances in artificial intelligence are leading to many revolutions in robotics. How will the arrival of robots impact the growth of the economy, the workers' wage, consumption, and lifetime welfare? This dissertation attempts to answer this question by presenting a standard neoclassical growth model with two different kinds of robots, reflecting two ways that robots can transform the labor market. The first chapter introduces additive robots- a perfect substitution for human labor, while the second chapter employs multiplicative robots- a type of robots that augments human labor. The prevailing main result is that even in the case with no population …
Essays On Human Capital, Growth And Innovation: Political Economy Perspective, Di Sima
Essays On Human Capital, Growth And Innovation: Political Economy Perspective, Di Sima
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The dissertation explores the role of human capital, education, and political institutions in the process of economic and political development. The first chapter shows that economic development such as secondary school enrollment rates during the democratization period exerts long-lasting effects on growth, possibly by giving permanent birthmarks to newly minted democratic institutions. Specifically, democracies born in weak development tend to have weak institutions and slow growth, while in contrast, those with adequate development at the political transition time establish strong institutions and achieve faster growth. The second chapter explores the effect of curriculum control in schooling on national innovation and …
The Extensive And Intensive Margins Of Time Investments On The Skill Development Of Children And Adolescents, Yi Rachel Tan
The Extensive And Intensive Margins Of Time Investments On The Skill Development Of Children And Adolescents, Yi Rachel Tan
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The literature on time investments and skill development has focused on estimating the intensive margins of time investments; This study explores whether including extensive margins might provide additional insights. The extensive and intensive margins of maternal time investments and child time investments (or child self-investments) in three categories of activities (educational, structured and unstructured) on the cognitive and non-cognitive skill development of children (6 to 10 years) and adolescents (11 to 15 years) are quantified by fitting skill production functions with ordinary least squares and family fixed effects specifications. Cognitive skills are assessed by three achievement test scores which indicate …