We study an imitation game of strategic complementarities between the percentage of high-skilled workers and innovative firms, namely, human capital and R&D, respectively. We show that this model has two pure Nash equilibria, one of them with high investment in R&D and skilled workers while the...

Economic evolution is said to occur when economic structures change. That is, when the institutional and/or technological rules of a society are replaced by new ones. As with evolutionary phenomena in other fields it is rather impossible to predict such a change. The reason is that economic...

Durante las décadas de los 50 y 60 emergió la llamada Teoría del Desarrollo. Posteriores dificultades en la presentación de los modelos subyacentes en las teorías y el fracaso de las políticas implementadas a partir de ellas llevaron a que esta teoría prácticamente desapareciera como...

We consider an economy with two types of firms (innovative and non-innovative) and two types of workers (skilled and unskilled), where workers' decisions are driven by imitative behavior, and thus the evolution of such an economy depends on the initial distribution of the firms. We show that...

En este trabajo se analiza la evolucion de una economia con dos tipos de firmas (innovadoras y no-innovadoras) y dos tipos de trabajadores (altamente calificados y poco calificados), en el que las decisiones de los trabajadores se encuentran definidas por conductas imitativas de comportamiento y...

This paper argues that the Brazilian economy went recently through a process of accelerated growth driven by exports and fixed capital formation. Although the pace of growth was more robust than in the 1990 decade, we can still see the presence of macroeconomic constraints to its continuation in...