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El Índice De Desarrollo Humano Y Su Aplicación A Las Entidades Federativas En México, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu Dec 2004

El Índice De Desarrollo Humano Y Su Aplicación A Las Entidades Federativas En México, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

En este trabajo se analiza al Índice de Desarrollo Humano (IDH) como medida de desarrollo y se construye un IDH a nivel de las entidades federativas en México utilizando información para el año 2000. La investigación argumenta que el IDH carece de una base teórica adecuada, por lo que resulta una medida de desarrollo arbitraria. Asimismo, el trabajo muestra empíricamente que en el caso de las entidades federativas mexicanas el IDH aporta poca información adicional a la que se obtiene utilizando solamente el Producto Interno Bruto per cápita como medida de desarrollo. El trabajo concluye presentando una medida de desarrollo …

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Trade Potentials In Gravity Panel Data Models, Luca De Benedictis, Claudio Vicarelli Dec 2004

Trade Potentials In Gravity Panel Data Models, Luca De Benedictis, Claudio Vicarelli

Luca De Benedictis

The paper shows how - using as an example the trade flows between eleven European countries and 31 OECD `reporting' countries - the result of a gravity model, in terms of potential trade, changes substantially when country heterogeneity and dynamics are taken into account.

Comparing the in-sample trade potential index derived from various estimators yields three different results: (a) the average trade potential index poorly represents the distribution of yearly trade potentials; (b) the index converges towards the demarcation value corresponding to the equality between observed and predicted trade flows when country heterogeneity and dynamics are taken into account; (c) …

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Managing Switching Costs In Multi-Period Procurements With Strategic Buyers, Tracy R. Lewis, Huseyin Yildirim Dec 2004

Managing Switching Costs In Multi-Period Procurements With Strategic Buyers, Tracy R. Lewis, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

No abstract provided.

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Un World Summits And Civil Society. The State Of Art, Mario Pianta Dec 2004

Un World Summits And Civil Society. The State Of Art, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta

No abstract provided.

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Innovation And Employment, Mario Pianta Dec 2004

Innovation And Employment, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta

The relationship between innovation and employment is a complex one and has long been a topical issue in economic theory. Moving from the classical question ‘‘does technology create or destroy jobs?’’ recent research has investigated the impact of different types of innovation and the structural and institutional factors affecting the quantity of employment change. Quality aspects have received increasing attention, with questions of ‘‘what type of jobs are created or destroyed by innovation?’’ This line of research has asked, ‘‘how does the composition of skills change’’ and ‘‘how does the wage structure change,’’ leading to a large literature on skill …

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Democracia De Masas Y Democracia Constitucional En El Perú Contemporáneo, Jose Luis Sardon Dec 2004

Democracia De Masas Y Democracia Constitucional En El Perú Contemporáneo, Jose Luis Sardon

Jose Luis Sardon

No abstract provided.

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The Powers Of The Central Governments And The Problems Of Enlarging And Deepening The European Union: An Essay Of Constitutional Political Economy, Antonio García Lorenzo, Andrés Faiña, Jesús López-Rodríguez Dec 2004

The Powers Of The Central Governments And The Problems Of Enlarging And Deepening The European Union: An Essay Of Constitutional Political Economy, Antonio García Lorenzo, Andrés Faiña, Jesús López-Rodríguez

Jesús López-Rodríguez

In this paper we present an adaptation of Buchanan and Tullock’s model in order to apply it to the constitutional choices regarding the assigning of powers to a supranational authority. The outcome of the economic-political model developed in this paper demonstrates that there are constraints in the supply of integration, suggesting that the enlargement and deepening of the European Union will have to be based on federalist conceptions.

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Identifying Sources On Entrepreneurship And The Informal Economy, Colin C. Williams Dec 2004

Identifying Sources On Entrepreneurship And The Informal Economy, Colin C. Williams

Colin C Williams

No abstract provided.

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Labor-Force Heterogeneity As A Source Of Agglomeration Economics In An Empirical Analysis Of County-Level Determinants Of Food Plant Entry, David E. Davis Dec 2004

Labor-Force Heterogeneity As A Source Of Agglomeration Economics In An Empirical Analysis Of County-Level Determinants Of Food Plant Entry, David E. Davis

David E. Davis

Results of this study show that a heterogeneous labor force serves to attract new food manufacturing investment. We conduct analysis for SIC 20, Food and Kindred Product Manufacturing, and disaggregate analysis on all nine three-digit SIC food industries. Heterogeneity variables are a significant factor in nearly all specifications. We also examine which factors create the greatest increases in the expected number of new establishments. Areas with a high degree of labor heterogeneity are found to have large advantages. Labor heterogeneity is among the most important factors attracting food manufacturing to urban areas over rural areas.

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To Lift Or Not To Lift? A Few Notes On The Lifting Of The European Arms Embargo On China, Raul Caruso Dec 2004

To Lift Or Not To Lift? A Few Notes On The Lifting Of The European Arms Embargo On China, Raul Caruso

Raul Caruso

In the last years many european politicians proposed to lift the arms embargo on CHina. This short paper aims to shed light on such proposal of lifting the EU arms embargo to China. First, the legal bindings of the embargo are simply introduced. Then, figures and some elements on arms trade to China are reported. Eventually some concerns on the proposal of lifting are expounded.

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International Institutions And Peace, An Economic Approach To Conflict And Integrative Activities, Raul Caruso Dec 2004

International Institutions And Peace, An Economic Approach To Conflict And Integrative Activities, Raul Caruso

Raul Caruso

This is my Phd Dissertation.

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A Failure To Communicate: What (If Anything) Can We Learn From The Negative Income Tax Experiments?, Karl Widerquist Dec 2004

A Failure To Communicate: What (If Anything) Can We Learn From The Negative Income Tax Experiments?, Karl Widerquist

Karl Widerquist

The U.S. and Canadian governments conducted five negative income tax experiments between 1968 and 1980. The labor market findings of these experiments were an advance for understanding the effects of a basic income guarantee, but their conclusiveness is often overstated. A review of nonacademic articles on the experiments reveals poor understanding of the results. One often overlooked cause of this misinterpretation was the failure of researchers to make clear that the experiments could not estimate the demand response and therefore could not estimate the market response to the program. Although the evidence does not amount to an overwhelming case either …

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A Retrospective On The Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back At The Most Innovative Field Studies In Social Policy, Karl Widerquist Dec 2004

A Retrospective On The Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back At The Most Innovative Field Studies In Social Policy, Karl Widerquist

Karl Widerquist

No abstract provided.

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The Impact Of Economic Development Incentives : A Review Of The Literature, Dave N. Norris, Elizabeth M. Higgins Dec 2004

The Impact Of Economic Development Incentives : A Review Of The Literature, Dave N. Norris, Elizabeth M. Higgins

Dave Norris

No abstract provided.

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