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Recently, many contributions have focused on the relationship between capital accumulation, growth and population … environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution … technological innovations, promotes such a polluting development process, escaping a trap where the economy is relegated to a low …
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This article is the introduction of an issue (to be published) of the U.S. review International Journal of Political Economy on the Cuban economy, and coordinated by Rémy Herrera. It deals with the progresses, but also with the deficiencies, of the Cuban revolution in the economic field, until...
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I investigate the link between business regulatory reforms and economic growth in 172 countries. I create a five year … regulatory reforms increase economic growth, using data on micro-economic reforms. These data do not suffer the endogeneity … that business regulatory reforms are good for economic growth. The paper establishes that, on average, each business …
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The estimation of the relationship between education and economic growth is marked by contradictions. These …, makes it possible to confirm or not the positive relationship between education and growth. Taking into account the … endogeneity of education, we measure a positive effect of qualitative indicators of human capital and the growth of countries …
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We deliver a short overview of di erent centrality measures and influence concepts in social networks, and present the … centrality: the ones based on degree, closeness, betweenness, and the eigenvector-related measures. We consider centrality of a … node and of a network. Moreover, we give a classi cation of the centrality measures based on a topology of network flows …
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spatial level. The application of the traditional approach of identifying centres is compared with an 'objective' centrality …
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We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...
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outside his coalition. To predict the coalitional networks that are going to emerge at equilibrium we propose the concept of …
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Consumers and organisations are increasingly considering longer term sustainability issues when they purchase or supply goods or services: "green buying" appears to be gaining momentum. However, progress is slow and the percentage of green purchases has remained static at 2% for the last two...
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points out that social networks are the most important way of finding a job. It focuses on a comparison between an informal …, sex), while social networks exclude people with poor connections in the labour market but might favour applicants without …
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