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Browsing ECO Working Papers by Author "DUERNECKER, Georg"
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Title:Social Networks and the Process of “Globalization”
Author(s):DUERNECKER, Georg; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We propose a stylised dynamic model to understand the role of social networks in the phenomenon we call “globalization.” This term refers to the process by which even agents who are geographically far apart come to interact, ...
Title:Being Close to Grow Faster: A network-based empirical analysis of economic globalization
Author(s):DUERNECKER, Georg; MEYER, Moritz; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Globalization features one of the major global trends which shape economic outcomes in developing and developed countries. Standard results from the empirical growth literature suggest that participation in worldwide trade ...
Title:Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment
Author(s):DUERNECKER, GeorgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The divergence of unemployment rates between the U.S. and Europe coincided
with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 70’s.
Furthermore, evidence suggests that European economies ...