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Economic geography of human development: stratified growth in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2008)
This article begins by constructing a model of stratified and divergent
economic growth integrating economic geography, human development and
endogenous technological change. Even in the presence of perfect capital,
goods, ...
An alternative correlation dimension statistic
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
One of the problems plaguing these applications has been the large data requirements of these statistical procedures. Time series numbering 20,000 are common in physical science applications, while results of applications ...
The challenge of market power under globalization
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
The legacy of Adam Smith leads to a false confidence on the optimality of laissez faire policies for the global market economy. Instead, the polarized character of current globalization deeply affects both developed and ...
Sectorial public power and endogenous growth
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
The concept of sectorial political economy is defined using a model of fragmented perfect competition and introduced in an dynamic game in which the government is a Stackelberg leader and the representative families of ...
Justice and efficiency in economic relations: explaining collaboration and conflict in the firm and choice in ultimatum games
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
Individual preferences are sensitivic to particular economic interections. Complex psychological phenomena affec the meaning and ordering of their objects according to different institucional patterns and strategical ...
Democratic economics and improved governance: development policies for the G20
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Democratic economics and improved governance can be guiding principles
for the newly formed G20, representing two thirds of the world’s population
and 88% of the world’s economy.
To get economies to work for the majorities ...
Endogenous planning horizons: distribution and growth
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
Endogenous growth models havea peculiarly unsatisfactory flavor when considered from the point of view of the less developed economies. According to these models, poor countries have a higher propensity to save then rich, ...
Immobilization of n-dimensional geometrical figures
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
We treat for n-dimensional bodies the immobilization problem introduced by Kuperberg and Papadimitriou, giving the zerocth, first and second order condition for fixing, as well as a geometric characterization of the first ...
Non-communicable chronic diseases in the Americas: an economic perspective on health policies
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) are amongst the principal
burdens of disease in both developed and underdeveloped countries. The
main causes of these illnesses are well known. They are tobacco use,
unhealthy ...
Urbanization as a fundamental cause of development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
I review the current theoretical and econometric literature on the economic
dynamics of urbanization and its relation to economic growth. I then report
research results on the short- and long-term impacts of urbanization ...