We show that the use of pooled and panel data in estimating convergence across countries (or other territorial areas) may involve some pitfalls since this type of data cannot properly distinguish between actual convergence and the possibility of decreasing growth rates over time within each...

This paper aims to test the conjecture advanced in a recent work by Bianchi and Menegatti (2007) that usual !convergence panel regressions may produce biased evidence, due to their inability to distinguish between actual catching-up across countries and decreasing growth rates over time within...

This paper studies the empirical relationship between consumption and saving under two different sources of uncertainty: financial risk and environmental risk. The analysis is carried out using time series data for six advanced economies in the period 1965-2007. The results support the...

This paper empirically estimates a micro-founded model which studies the macroeconomic impact of environmental and financial risks on consumption choices in the Mediterranean Region. The analysis is carried out using time series aggregate data for fourteen Mediterranean countries over the period...

Many papers in the litterature have adopted the expected utility paradigm to analyze insurancedecisions. Insurance companies manage policies by growing, by adding independent risks.Even if adding risks generally ultimately decreases the probability of insolvency, the impacton the insurer's...

In this paper, we consider a décision-maker facing a financial risk flanked by a backgroundrisk, possibly non-financial, such as health or environmental risk. A decision has to be madeabout the amount of an investment (in the financial dimension) resulting in a future benefiteither in the same...