This paper tests directly a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan during di®erent time periods. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log- linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a threshold...

This paper offers a methodological contribution to the empirical analysis of the relationships between banking and economic growth by suggesting a new indicator for the state of development of the banking system based on a measure of bank microeconomic efficiency. This choice helps to overcome...

Communication, in all its aspects excluding advertising, is an intrinsic element in every marketing strategy at whatever level. A quantitative analysis on the adevrtising and communication's feedback may be of absolute importance for the company, the research team and the marketing chief. In...

The notion of solution plays a crucial role in the conceptual system of Léon Walras, the founder of General Equilibrium Theory (GET). In this paper, after introducing the two solution concepts employed by Walras in the development of his version of GET, respectively called the “theoretical”...

In this paper we survey some notions of generalized derivative for C1,1 functions.Furthermore some optimality conditions and numerical methods for nonlinear minimization problems involving C1,1 data are studied.

In public health care organizations, the doctor is not only important as a provider of medical services but also as the individual that determines the demand of medical services; in other words the doctor is both a participant in the definition of demand for services and, at the same time, the...

Research on the transition from school to work is increasingly focusing on the horizontal stratification of educational systems, that is on how different educational tracks have an effect on students’ occupational chances. In the case of tertiary education, this means analyzing how different...

Abstract: Knowledge and technological change or innovation are key drivers of economic growth in the knowledge-based economy (KBE). Although the US economy is traditionally cited as the model, there are other technology frontier examples, such as Canada, arising from strong linkages among firms,...