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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 ...
A sorting-assisted fast algorithm for fractal dimension and BDS-type statistics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2000)
Presentamos un algoritmo rápido para calcular el histograma de distancias C(m, E ) en el que se basan los estadísticos de tipo BDS, que se apoya en el ordenamiento de los datos. El algoritmo calcula el histograma simultáneamente ...
Technological innovation, implementation and stagnation: convergence clubs in the open world economy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We construct a multi-country Schumpeterian growth model in which technological change can occur either through research and development or through implementation. R&D requires a threshold level of human capital that depends ...
Life expectancy conditions the economic growth distribution
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We show that when the distribution of economic growth is classified by life expectancy, significant and changing structural features emerge. The period 1960-1980 shows a non-linear dependence of average growth on life ...
The cross-country distribution of life expectancy is twin-peaked
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We show that the cross-country distribution of life expectancy for the period 1960-1997 is an evolving twin-peaked distribution with a diminishing, dynamically invariant lower peak. This may imply the presence of a ...
Convergence clubs in cross-country life expectancy dynamics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
I model life expectancy in terms of physical and human capital and technology, the fundamental economic variables described by economic growth theories. For concreteness, the Solow model and a convergence club growth model ...
Food for thought: basic needs and persistent educational inequality
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We give evidence that accumulation of educational capital by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health and well-being has been attained. Credit restrictions may thus imply the existence of low-health, low-income ...
The long-term impact of health on economic growth in Mexico: 1950-1995
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We report on a study of the effects of life expectancy and mortality by age and gender groups on economic growth in Mexico, 1950-1995, using a Granger causality test in economic growth equations. Results indicate stronger ...