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Education Funding and Regional Convergence

de la Croix, David; Monfort, Philippe - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of regional convergence within the framework of an overlapping … education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two …-off between long run growth rate and short run convergence. In such choice, the initial capital stock and the extent of regional …

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Renewable Natural Resources and Endogenous Growth

AZNAR-MARQUEZ, J.; Ruiz-Tamarit, J.R. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2002

the issues of sustainability, long-run and short-run growth as well as convergence, associated with the competitive …

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Machine Replacement, Technology Adoption and Convergence

Boucekkine, Raouf; Martinez, Blanca - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

short run fluctuations and decreases the convergence speed to the steady states. …

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La spécialisation des activités technologiques des régions européennes : une approche empirique de la convergence

Ouardighi, Jalal El - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005

convergence technologique et étudie comment la croissance économique affecte la spécialisation des régions. Les résultats d …'estimation montrent (i) une convergence (dé-spécialisation) des activités technologiques régionales. Les vitesses de dé … comme des facteurs de décélération de la vitesse de convergence technologique, (iii) l'effet de la croissance économique sur …

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Almost sure testability of classes of densities

Devroye, Luc; Lugosi, Gábor - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

Let a class $\F$ of densities be given. We draw an i.i.d.\ sample from a density $f$ which may or may not be in $\F$. After every $n$, one must make a guess whether $f \in \F$ or not. A class is almost surely testable if there exists such a testing sequence such that for any $f$, we make...

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Banks, liquidity crises and economic growth

Gaytan, Alejandro; Rancière, Romain - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

How do the liquidity functions of banks affect investment and growth at different stages of economic development? How do financial fragility and the costs of banking crises evolve with the level of wealth of countries? We analyze these issues using an overlapping generations growth model where...

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Fighting poverty and child malnutrition: on the design of foreign aid policies

VASILAKIS, Chrysovalantis - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

In this paper, we have developed a two-period overlapping-generation model featuring the effects of child nutrition in developing countries. The model gives rise to multiple equilibria including a poverty trap. It shows that child nutrition status may affect the development of human capital...

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Economic Development and the Family Structure: from the Pater Familias to the Nuclear Family

PENSIEROSO, Luca; SOMMACAL, Alessandro - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

We provide a theory that is able to account for the observed comovement between the shift in intergenerational living arrangements from coresidence to non-coresidence and economic development. Our theory is consistent with the diminution in the status of the elderly documented by some...

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Structural development accounting

Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...

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Childcare and Commitment within Households

GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents increases, the gap between childcare supplied by mothers relative to that supplied by fathers decreases. A two steps semi-cooperative marital decision model is proposed to...

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