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Evolutionary micro-dynamics and changes in the economic structure

Lorentz, André; Savona, Maria - 2006

The paper develops a growth model with evolutionary microfounded structural change. The model endogenises both technical change and changes in final and intermediate demand as affecting macro-economic growth, through the structural change of the economy. The aim is to formally account for the...

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Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change

Mendonça, Sandro; Pereira, Tiago Santos; Godinho, … - 2004

As innovation becomes an ever more central issue for the development of firms and world economies, so the need for improved assessments of innovative performance grows more urgent. This paper suggests that trademark analysis can contribute in capturing relevant aspects of innovation phenomena...

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Conformism and structural change

Horiy, Takeo; Ikefuji, Masako; Mino, Kazuo - 2011

We study structural change in a simple, two-sector endogenous growth model and show that the presence of commodity-specific consumption externalities can be a source of structural change. When the degrees of consumption externalities are different between different goods, the two sectors grow at...

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Sectorial shifts and inequality: How to relate macroeconomic events to inequality changes

Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012

This paper presents a way to explore how macroeconomic shifts cause inequality changes. It is based on the backwardness observed in the agricultural sector in rural areas. It shows why highly dualistic economies tend to be more unequal than economies with flexible and integrated labour markets....

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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay

Lindbeck, Assar - 2001

Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...

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Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung

Flassbeck, Heiner; Horn, Gustav A. - 1989

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Information and Communication Technologies, Globalisation and Competitiveness: A Selective Survey

Alecke, Björn; Untiedt, Gerhard - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 544-558

Globalisierung und die Frage diskutiert, wie Globalisierung und IuK-Technologien den Strukturwandel, das Wirtschaftswachstum und die … der internationale Handel zunehmen wird. Globalisierung und technischer Fortschritt beschleunigen den Strukturwandel … der neoklassische Theorie möglich. Bei der Diskussion um den Beitrag der IuK-Technologien für das gesamtwirtschaftliche …

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Zur theoretischen Fundierung einer vorausschauend lenkenden Strukturpolitik

Feldmann, Horst - 1992

Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird untersucht, ob die Volkswirtschaftslehre einen Beitrag zur theoretischen Fundierung einer vorausschauend lenkenden Strukturpolitik leisten kann. Zu diesem Zweck werden vier ausgewählte Theorien auf ihre Eignung als Basis einer vorausschauend lenkenden...

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Sectoral Technology and Structural Transformation

Herrendorf, Berthold; Herrington, Christopher; … - 2012

This paper assesses the importance for structural transformation of three features of sectoral technology: labor-augmenting technological progress, capital intensity, and substitutability between capital and labor. We estimate CES production functions for agriculture, manufacturing, and services...

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Bank Integration and Business Volatility in the U.S.

Morgan, Don; Rime, Bertrand; Strahan, Philip - 2001

We investigate how bank migration across state lines over the last quarter century has affected the size and covariance of business fluctuations within states. Starting with a two-state version of the unit banking model in Holmstrom and Tirole (1997), we conclude that the theoretical effect of...

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