Regional economic development records are not the same in the geographic regions of Romania, the issue representing a cause for discrepancies in living standards, quality of life, on one hand, and propensity for the economic sector, on the other hand. Without a proper involvement of the state...

The choice of location for a retail shop is a complex process that determines the economic success of the store. The right choice depends on accessibility, purchasing power, demand structure and the competitive situation. The latter factors have considerable impact in the long run when...

The introduction of unilateral climate policies, and the absence of a climate constraint in many parts of the world raise questions about the distortions in competitiveness and CO2 leakage that may result. Therefore, proposed climate policies are often accompanied by corrective measures intended...

In Fall 2009, officials from Chicago Public Schools changed their assignment mechanism for coveted spots at selective college preparatory high schools midstream. After asking about 14,000 applicants to submit their preferences for schools under one mechanism, the district asked them re-submit...

This paper studies the impact of access to education in a search and matching model of the labor market representing a developping economy. It then addresses the issue of the impact on the market efficiency of public policies aiming at increasing education. Developing economies are well known...

Governments’ behavior is expected to be non-neutral in terms of impacts on both welfare and inequality. In spite of their multivariate form, a tentative assessment of such inequality impacts can be provided by using a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agents model where distribution is...

Within this paper, we discuss problems and solutions of integrating intertemporal trade into an economy-energy-environment model. Modeling intertemporal trade provides additional flexibility in achieving economic development as well as environmental sustainability targets, that likely...

In a Bayesian setting, investments can be risky either because they are opaque, i.e., their payoff-relevant signals are noisy, or because they are fundamentally risky, i.e., the variance of the prior is high. When interest rates are low (high), investors favor opaque (transparent) projects that...

This paper presents a dynamic multiregional CGE model to address commodity quantities and prices in the full fledged general equilibrium framework. This is important for various reasons. One of the reasons is the possible competition between food and biofuels, as biofuel promotion policies have...

This paper presents an analysis of the findings of a survey on a sample of Portuguese firms. The main aim is to identify some relevant characteristics about the dynamics of prices and wages in PortugalSurvey data; Probit modelsThe most important conclusions are: i) changes to wages are more...