Title:Gravity and Information:Heterogeneous Firms, Exporter Networks and the ‘Distance Puzzle’
Author(s):KRAUTHEIM, SebastianDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Distance effects in empirical gravity equations appear to be too high to be explained by transport costs alone. Moreover, despite the strong and ongoing reduction of transport costs, the estimated coefficients are rather ...
Title:Group Report: Why and When Do Simple Heuristics Works?
Author(s):SCHLAG, Karl H.; GOLDSTEIN, Darra; GIGERENZER, Gerd; HOGART, Robert; KACELNIK, A.; KAREEV, Y.; KEIN, G.; MARTIGNON, L.; PAYNE, J.Date:2001Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Growth and Employment Effects of Fiscal Regimes
Author(s):ROEGER, Werner; DE FIORE, FiorellaDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper presents an endogenous growth model with firms exhibiting external or internal increasing returns. Firms are either perfectly or monopolistically competitive. The paper extends fiscal policy results, to cases ...
Title:Growth in Euro Area Labour Quality
Author(s):SCHWERDT, Guido; TURUNEN, JarkkoDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:ECB Working Paper
Title:Growth, Human-Capital Spillovers and International-Policy Coordination
Author(s):BLACKBURN, Keith; RAVN, Morten O.Date:1993Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper is concerned with public policy and economic development in a world of interdependent economies. Its objective is to show how the international coordination of economic policy is a means of promoting growth across ...
Title:Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; BAS, JacobsDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPR discussion paperAbstract:Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions ...
Title:Guide to reform of higher education: a European perspective
Author(s):JACOBS, Bas; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna Agreement and the ambitions ...
Title:Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
Author(s):ADDA, Jérôme; LECHENE, ValérieDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, ...