This paper examines the role of alternative assumptions on savings and expectations for the fixwage traverse with strong forward biased technological change. After briefly outlining the model, some peculiarities of the adjustment path under the Hicksian Q-Assumption are investigated....

We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting...

Introduction -- Conceptual and contextual framework -- Identifying ICT diffusion and substitution patterns -- Elucidating "network effects" and ICT diffusion determinants in Asia -- Drawing lessons from this book

Introduction -- The production process cycle for seasonal good -- Introduction -- A process-based approach to the production cycle of seasonal products -- The role of time and of exogenous and endogenous factors in the production of seasonal products -- Time : a key parameter in the production...