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Cordoba, Juan Carlos - EconWPA - 2003

The city size distribution of many countries is remarkably well approximated by a Pareto distribution. We study what constraints this regularity imposes on standard urban models. We find that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto...

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Hysteresis in Export Markets

Opromolla, Luca David; Irarrazabal, Alfonso - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a dynamic monopolistic competition model with heterogenous firms to analyze the effects of uncertainty on international trade. We characterize a stationary equilibrium, with N symmetric countries, where firms’ productivities evolve stochastically over time. Our model...

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RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS IN THE ADJUSTMENT PROCESS:A MACROECONOMETRIC SIMULATION STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

THIS STUDY INVESTIGATES THE DOMINANT RESOURCE CONSTRAINT LIMITING GROWTH IN NIGERIA AS WELL AS THE DETERMINATION OF FUTURE RESOURCES REQUIREMENTS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE SUCH GROWTH. USING A SMALL SCALE MACROECONOMETRIC SIMULATION MODEL, THREE DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT. THE RESULTS SHOWED...

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Playing on profits cycle?

Baryshevsky, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003

In the article it is shown that year-to-year change of the S&P 500 does not depend on profits cycle. On the other hand, year-to-year change of earnings multiple P/E tends to anticorrelate with profits cycle. It shows sluggishness of market response in relation to profits cycle. It is shown that...

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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...

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The Roads To and From Serfdom

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

production. The ``organization'' of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … the 19th century US which had sparser population had a larger percentage slaves in the population. …

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The Roads To and From Serfdom

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

production. The "organization" of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … the 19th century US which had sparser population had a larger percentage slaves in the population. …

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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in … population does not have fat tail properties, while in the other hand; there exists power-law signature in kotamadya. We analyzed …

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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades. This impact study unravels the various factors behind these changes. Economic growth has been important, but so have major public sector interventions, notably reproductive...

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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004

If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline …

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