BackBrowsing Documentos de Trabajo e Informes Técnicos by Subject "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND GROWTH"
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Benchmarking of patents: An application of GAM methodology
Mariel Chladkova, Petr
; (2007-04)
The present article reexamines some of the issues regarding the benchmarking of patents using the NBER data base on U.S. patents by generalizing a parametric citation model and by estimating it using GAM methodology. The ... -
Choice of Flexible Production Technologies Under Strategic Delegation
; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma (2004-09)
This work analyzes a managerial delegation model in which firms can choose between a flexible production technology which allows them to produce two different products and a dedicated production technology which limits ... -
Consumption-Leisure Trade-offs and Persistency in Business Cycles
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; Moral Zuazo, María Paz (2007)
This paper studies whether nonseparabilities between consumption and leisure may help to explain the observed persistence in GNP growth. We consider an extended version of Lucas' (1988) human capital investment model that ... -
Cost-Saving production technologies and strategic delegation
; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma (2004-02)
This work analyzes a managerial delegation model in which firms that produce a differentiated good can choose between two production technologies: a low marginal cost technology and a high marginal cost technology. For ... -
Foreign Aid Linked to Infrastructure and/or Pollution Abatement
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; San Martín Lizarralde, Marta (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-03)
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of a permanent increase in foreign aid in a model that takes into account environmental quality. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which both public investment in ... -
Growth in an oil abundant economy: The case of Venezuela
Agnani, Betty; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-09)
Venezuela's growth experience over the past fifty years is characterized by a high economic growth rate from 1950 to 1970 and a low economic growth rate in the last thirty years. Although Venezuela is an oil abundant ... -
Growth in Overlapping Generation Economies with Non-Renewable Resources
Agnani, Betty; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
Feasibility of positive steady-state growth in overlapping generation (OLG) economies that use non-renewable resources as essential inputs in the production process is analyzed. The model we use is, in essence, that of ... -
Income Taxation and Growth in an OLG Economy: Does Aggregate Uncertainty Play any Role?
Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (2013-12-18)
We analyze the effects of capital income taxation on long-run growth in a stochastic, two-period overlapping generations economy. Endogenous growth is driven by a positive externality of physical capital in the production ... -
Life Expectancy, Human Capital, Social Security and Growth
Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
We analyze the effects of changes in the mortality rate upon life expectancy, education, retirement age, human capital and growth in the presence of social security. We build a vintage growth, overlapping generations model ... -
Long-Term Growth and Persistence with Endogenous Depreciation: Theory and Evidence
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; Romero-Avila, Diego (Departamento de Fundamentos dle Análisis Económico I, 2013)
Previous research has shown a strong positive correlation between short-term persistence and long-term output growth as well as between depreciation rates and long-term output growth. This evidence, therefore, contradicts ... -
Output dynamics in an endogenous growth model
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; Moral Zuazo, María Paz (2003-07)
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether endogenous growth RBC models are consistent with two stylized facts about U.S. output dynamics. First, GNP growth is positively correlated in the short run and it has a weak ... -
Political Institutions, Technology and Growth: a dynamic panel approach
(Departamento Fundamentos del Ánálisis Económico I UPV/EHU, 2015-10)This paper investigates whether the effect of political institutions on sectoral economic performance is determined by the level of technological development of industries. Building on previous studies on the linkages among ... -
Productivity's development in the Basque Economy during the period 1985-1994
(1998-09)[EN] The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of Basque Country's economy's productivity in the period 1985-1994 and, identify which are the factors that decide that evolution. We specify a Cobb-Douglas production ... -
R&D Policy in Economies with Endogenous Growth and Non-Renewable Resources
Agnani, Betty; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-10)
The aim of this paper is to analyze how active R&D policies affect the growth rate of an economy with endogenous growth and non-renewable resources. We know from Scholz and Ziemens (1999) and Groth (2006) that in infinitely ... -
Second-best tax policy in a growing economy with externalities
Cassou, Steven P.; Gorostiaga Alonso, Miren Arantzazu; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Hamilton, Stephen F. (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-10)
This paper investigates the exploitation of environmental resources in a growing economy within a second-best scal policy framework. Agents derive utility from two types of consumption goods one which relies on an ... -
Selectivity, pulse fishing and endogenous lifespan in Beverton-Holt models
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)Optimal management in a multi-cohort Beverton-Holt model with any number of age classes and imperfect selectivity is equivalent to finding the optimal fish lifespan by chosen fallow cycles. Optimal policy differs in two ... -
Should firms allow workers to participate in R&D investment?
Campo Corredera, María Luz (1999-10)
[EN] This paper analyzes if the introduction of new technologies in unionized firms, should be chosen unilaterally by the firm or negotiated with the union. The results show that firms prefer to choose the level of R&D or ... -
Social Interactions and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Latin America
Ateca Amestoy, Victoria María; Cortés Aguilar, Alexandra; Moro-Egido, Ana I. (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
In this paper, we seek to examine the effect of comparisons and social capital on subjective well-being. Furthermore, we test if, through social influence and exposure, social capital is either an enhancer or appeaser of ... -
Social Security, Education, Retirement and Growth
Iza Padilla, María Amaya; Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-02)
In this paper we analyze the effects of social security policies in an unfunded, earnings-related social security system on the incentives to education investment and voluntary retirement, on growth and on income inequality. ... -
Timing of Wage Setting when Firms Invest in R&D
; Campo Corredera, María Luz (2003-12)
In this paper, we analyze the effect that the timing of wage setting (i. e. whether wages set sequentially or simultaneously) has on the investment in R&D of firms, when that investment increases the productivity of labor, ...