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A North-South agent based model of segmented labour markets : the role of education and trade asymmetries

Fanti, Lucrezia; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2023

of the education level they are able to provide. Education is modeled as a national-level policy differently targeting … in terms of both requested education level and offered wages. To address the role of trade and education, we experiment … with different education-policy and trade settings. Ultimately, we are interested in understanding the coupling effects of …

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The agenda for evolutionary economics : results, dead ends, and challenges ahead

Dosi, Giovanni - 2022

This essay outlines the evolutionary research agenda thoroughly explored in its microeconomic aspects in the forthcoming Manual, The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies. Part One: Innovation, Organization and Industrial Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 2023. But is there an...

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Technical progress and structural change : a long-term view

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Russo, Emanuele - 2019

Along the development path, countries experience large transformations in their economic structure as productive resources move towards different economic activities. ''Modern economic growth'' is also associated with a self-sustained process of technical change which leads to the emergence of...

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In order to stand up you must keep cycling : change and coordination in complex evolving economies

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2016

In this work we discuss the main building blocks, achievements and challenges of an evolutionary interpretation of the relation between mechanisms of coordination and drivers of change in modern economies, seen as complex evolving systems. It is an evident stylised fact of modern economic...

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Small worlds

Codenotti, Bruno (contributor); Foschini, Luca (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In this tutorial we present some basic ideas behind the notion of Small World. We review the state-of-the-art in the field, and put emphasis on some recent developments, in connection with analyzing the structure of the Web.

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Markets for heterogeneous products : a boundedly rational consumer model

Valente, Marco - 2009

The paper is based on the acknowledgement that properties of markets stemming from features of demand are too frequently overlooked in the economic literature, and a re-balancing is necessary to properly account for theoretical and empirical phenomena. We sustain that one of the most relevant...

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Public policies and the art of catching up : matching the historical evidence with a multi-country agent-based model

Dosi, Giovanni; Roventini, Andrea; Russo, Emanule - 2020

In this paper, we study the effects of industrial policies on international convergence using a multi-country agent-based model which builds upon Dosi et al. (2019b). The model features a group of microfounded economies, with evolving industries, populated by heterogeneous firms that compete in...

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Endogenous growth and global divergence in a multi-country agent-based model

Dosi, Giovanni; Roventini, Andrea; Russo, Emanuele - 2017

In this paper we present a multi-country, multi-industry agent-based model investigating the different growth patterns of interdependent economies. Each country features a Schumpeterian engine of endogenous technical change which interacts with Keyneasian/Kaldorian demand generation mechanisms....

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The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of "learning by doing" : Evidence from India

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Mathew, Nanditha - 2016

"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...

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Strategic interactions in public R&D across EU-15 countries : a spatial econometric analysis

Hammadou, Hakim; Paty, Sonia; Savona, Maria - 2012

The aim of this paper is to test the presence of strategic interactions in government spending on Research and Development (R&D) among EU-15 countries. We add to the literature on public choice strategic interactions in general, and to work on R&D spending in particular. We take account of...

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