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: that of the divergence or convergence of tastes. Based on a sample of 622 popular films released between 2005 and 2009 in … build an alternative and useful form of tastes’ convergence. …
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convergence or divergence of tastes, such as they are expressed by professional experts and ordinary consumers of films? In other … words, have the ordinary consumers "good taste "? Contrary to recent U.S. studies finding some convergence, our results …
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This paper investigates the impact of complementarity reforms on growth and how it depends on GDP per capita. Based on reform data for six policy areas compiled from various sources during the period 1994-2006 for over 100 countries, we compute composite indicators of reform level and...
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In many poor countries, the problem is not that governments do not invest, but that these investments do not create productive capital. So, the cost of public investments does not correspond to the value of the capital stocks. In this paper, we propose an original non parametric approach to...
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The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...
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