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Jan Fagerberg and Martin Srholec Abstract: This paper explores the possibility that technological capabilities, to lead to development, need to be accompanied by a broader set of “social capabilities”, reflecting …
Miroslav Prokopijevic – March 2002 “…the reformer has enemies in all these who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by …
Enrico Colombatto – Università di Torino e ICER Abstract: Di recente l’analisi austriaca del ciclo economico è stata oggetto di rinnovato interesse: contrariamente alla maggior parte delle analisi tradizionali, …
Enrico Colombatto Università di Torino and ICER Abstract: By examining Hayek’s approach to economic policy, this paper tries to show that his understanding of a free-market society was ambiguous, …
Taizhong Hu, Alfred M¸ller, and Marco Scarsini: December 2002, revised March 2003 and June 2003 Abstract: We provide some counterexamples showing that some concepts of positive dependence are strictly …
Bruno Bassan, Olivier Gossner, Marco Scarsini, and Shmuel Zamir Abstract: We exhibit a general class of interactive decision situations in which all the agents benefit from more information. This …
Ronald A. Cass Abstract: Property rights – rights to control, use, or transfer things (broadly conceived) – though not readily distinguished from other rights, comprise a category of rights …
Fabio Privileggi and Guido Cozzi Abstract: In this paper we study the geometrical properties of the support of the limit distributions of income/wealth in economies with uninsurable individual risk, …
Enrico Colombatto, Univ. di Torino and ICER Abstract: This article considers corruption as a breach of contract between a principal and an agent. This does not necessarily imply that …
Kay Muir-Leresche and Robert H. Nelson† Abstract: In most nations around the world wildlife are owned and managed by the State. However, in the past 30 years Zimbabwe, Namibia …
A review essay on Luca Fantacci (2005) La moneta: Storia di un’istituzione mancata (Money: History of a Missing Institution) (Venezia: Biblioteca Marsilio). Abstract: In this paper I am going …
Carlo Lottieri Università di Siena e Icer di Torino Aprile 2003 Abstract: Il paper prende in esame i principali scritti di Bruno Leoni sul monopolio e sullo Stato, con …
Guido Fioretti Università di Firenze and ICER, Torino Abstract Evidence Theory is a branch of mathematics that concerns the combination of empirical evidence in an individual’s mind in order …
SVETOZAR PEJOVICH Professor of Economics Texas A&M University, College Station, and Imadec University, Vienna and Senior Fellow International Centre for Economic Research Torino, Italy ABSTRACT: Institutional restructuring in West …
Paula E. Stephan Georgia State University, NBER and ICER1 ABSTRACT This paper makes the case that the biomedical workforce in the United States is characterized by positive feedbacks. The …
Nikolay Nenovsky Bulgarian National Bank, University of Orléans, ICER Giovanni Pavanelli Department of Economics “G. Prato”, University of Torino Kalina Dimitrova Bulgarian National Bank, Sveti Kliment Ohridski University of …
Nikolay Nenovsky Bulgarian National Bank and ICER Summary: Institutional competition stirs the interest of economists following a certain cyclical pattern. In this context, it is very interesting to look …
Growth by destination (where you export matters): Trade with China and growth in African countries Mina Baliamoune-Lutz Professor and Kip Fellow of Economics University of North Florida And Research …
In the paper we study the relationship between macroeconomic and stock market volatility, using S&P500 data for the period 1970-2001. We find weak evidence of long memory in volatility …
The purpose of this paper is to delineate new similarities and future differences between legal systems, using pre-contractual liability and good faith. Instead of focusing on the differences between …
Abstract: This article uses economic categories to show how the reorganisation of civil procedure in the case of class action is not merely aimed at providing a more efficient …
Abstract: Drawing from Coase’s methodological lesson, this article discusses the specific case of knowledge, which was for a long time chiefly governed by exchange mechanisms lying outside the market, …
Although fiscal (de)centralization literature explains easily the centralization of taxes on the basis of a superior tax administration capacity, it finds more difficult to argue why in federal and …
In the present paper we are going to examine texts by Werner Sombart and Friedrich von Wieser on entrepreneurship and the capitalist economy using an interdisciplinary approach focused on …
In the paper we wish to examine if the firms that innovate know a higher growth than the firm that do not. We use diverse waves of CIS for …
Ivan Pososhkov (1652-1726) is credited with writing Russia’s first systematic economic treatise. A study on Pososhkov’s economic and social ideas is interesting for no fewer than three reasons. First, …
This paper offers a new and robust model of the emergence and persistence of cooperation. In the model, interactions are anonymous, the population is well-mixed, and the evolutionary process …
Abstract: The objectives of this paper could be brought to three. First, a methodological one, to explain how economic knowledge disseminates and what its channels are, as well as …
This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. First, the income stream …
Abstract: A logistic function framework is used to allocate European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) direct payments to farmers among the different member states. Total CAP expenditure is the …
