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International Comparisons of Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Performance: Stylised Facts and Decomposition of Trends

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition...

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Comparative Advantage, the Rank-size Rule, and Zipf's Law

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

sectors. These differences are related empirically to country and sector characteristics, including population size, GDP, and …

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Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross-country variation in productivity performance depends on the...

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Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...

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Post-Socialist Financial Fragility: the Case of Albania

Bezemer, Dirk J. - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

rare in the region. In the post-socialist setting, expectations of the population and other potential investors based on a …

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

the preference for the aggregate population size? In this paper we distinguish each of these categories and show for the … case of the Netherlands that each of these elements applies although the effect of population size preference and the self …, however, the aggregate population size preference of respondents. …

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Interacting Agents in Finance

Hommes, Cars - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Interacting agents in finance represent a behavioral, agent-based approach in which financial markets are viewed as complex adaptive systems consisting of many boundedly rational agents interacting through simple heterogeneous investment strategies, constantly adapting their behavior in response...

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Heterogeneous Agent Models in Economics and Finance

Hommes, Cars H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper surveys work on dynamic heterogeneous agent models (HAMs) in economics and finance. Emphasis is given to simple models that, at least to some extent, are tractable by analytic methods in combination with computational tools. Most of these models are behavioral models with boundedly...

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Heterogeneous Agent Models: Two Simple Case Studies

Hommes, Cars - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

These notes review two simple heterogeneous agent models in economics and finance. The first is a cobweb model with rational versus naive agents introduced in Brock and Hommes (1997). The second is an asset pricing model with fundamentalists versus technical traders introduced in Brock and...

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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