This paper studies the steady-state and transitional dynamics predictions of an R&D-based growth model and evaluates their performance in explaining income disparities across countries. We find that even though steady-state conditions di slightly better at predicting schooling enrollment and...

In Economic Theory, development is the topic, which delves into human welfare. Its aim is linked to welfare expansion in the context of regions. In this working paper, I am assuming that aims and strategies of development are linked to the evolution of welfare notion. At the same time, this...

In this paper we re-examine the German dominance hypothesis, as a way to assess whether the loss of monetary autonomy in Europe associated with EMU had been significant. We use Granger-causality tests between the interest rates of Germany and all the countries participating at any time in the...

Structural models are a powerful tool for business cycle and monetary policy analysis because they are assumed to be invariant to either policy changes or external shoxks. In this paper, we derive a neoclassical monetary model in which both the demand and supply side are setructural in the sense...

A deeply-rooted preference for sons may decrease the relative number of female births. Though there are variables that may help to erode the couple's preference for sons, these same variables may also increase the availability of means to ensure male births. This is the case of educational...

Objectives. This paper explores the use of regression models for estimating health status of schizophrenic patients, from a Bayesian perspective. Our aims are: 1- To obtain a set of values of health states of the EQ-5D based on self-assessed health from a sample of schizophrenic patients. 2- To...

This note reports the rate of inflation that minimizes the mark-up of prices over marginal costs in the steady-state solution of a monopolistic competition model with either Taylor (1980) or Calvo (1983) pricing. The minimal mark-up is always found at a positive and low rate of inflation for any...

En este trabajo se realiza un contraste del modelo de nueva información para los casos del tipo de cambio de la peseta con respecto al marco alemán y al dólar estadounidense, utilizando datos mensuales para el periodo enero de 1986 - junio de 1996. Se consideran 'noticias' sobre la oferta...

The specification of the central banks' reaction function along the way proposed by Taylor (1993) allows us to know to what extent monetary policy is sensitive to the basic objectives of economic policy, such as the deviation of the inflation rate from a given target, and that or real output...

We theoretically and experimentally study a zero sum betting market: the Pelota betting system, but with commonly known objective probabilities and without commissions. We know that risk-averse expected utility maximizers with identical objective probabilities cannot agree on a bet....