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Do this or do that? A model to prioritize reforms

Hannes Tepper
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This paper aims to fill the methodological gap in development economics that until now there exists no quantitative tool that allows to prioritize reforms in a systematic nor optimal way. Following the recent debate on the issues Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) have with establishing external validity and general equilibrium effects, this paper proposes a micro-founded Growth Diagnostics framework to consider general equilibrium effects and prioritize policy prescriptions. Contrarily to Hausmann et al. (2005), we set up two continous-time Overlapping Generations (OLG) models to account for the different net-marginal valuations of various economic activities rigorously. We solve the household and planner problem to respectively obtain the private and social net-marginal valuations of economic activities via the corresponding Lagrange multipliers. With these in hand, we define the wedges in the net-marginal private and social valuations to set up a new planner problem (we call super policy maker problem), where the planner minimizes the sum of wedges. This final wrapping optimization problem allows to prioritize optimally economic reforms in a second-best framework, thus, to put it in the words of Rodrik (2010), to first diagnose before one prescribes the remedy.
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halshs-04005785 , version 1 (27-02-2023)

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Carmen Camacho, Hannes Tepper. Do this or do that? A model to prioritize reforms. 2023. ⟨halshs-04005785⟩
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