11,643 research outputs found
Infrastructures and New Technologies as Sources of Spanish Economic Growth
No full textThe paper revises the impact of infrastructures and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth. It takes Spain as a reference case due to the accessibility to capital services estimates. The Spanish database allows the measurement of the impact on growth of three ICT assets (software, hardware and communication) and six different types of infrastructures (roads, railways, airports, ports, as well as urban and water infrastructures). It also allows the distinction between public and privately owned infrastructures. As a first step, the paper recommends the adjustment of the National Accounts (NA) figures, especially when the endogenous approach to compute the user cost is utilized. The rationale for the adjustment relies on the need to recognize explicitly the services provided by public capital, not fully included in NA.ICT, Infrastructures, growth accounting
Diseño y optimización de la estructura y propiedades de materiales grafénicos
No full textTesis realizada en la Universidad de OviedoAna Matilde Pérez Mas, autora de la tesis, habla sobre el estudio de la investigación de la tesis, la obtención del material, los puntos cuánticos, las aplicaciones , la creación de estructuras y las arquitecturas 3DMINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA, INDUSTRIA Y COMPETITIVIDAD * FECYT * UCC+
Spain and Italy: Catching up and falling behind. Two different tales of productivity slowdown
No full textThe paper presents a first set of results for Spain and Italy using the EUKLEMS database. It emphasizes the different paths followed by the two countries over the last thirty five years, even though they still have many features in common. The motivation behind this paper is the poor productivity performance that the two countries have shown recently. The general overview details the factors underlying the process of per capita income convergence. Productivity performance is highlighted as the driving factor of convergence, deserving the greatest attention from different perspectives: the contributions of the different sources of productivity growth, which make use of the growth accounting framework; the impact of the structural change undergone by the two countries while moving from economies with still important shares of the agricultural sector to a more modern one; or the responsibility of poor productivity improvements in given industries. The changing composition of labour also deserves a detailed analysis because of its importance in productivity over the period analyzed.Growth, productivity, Growth accouting
Casa Matilde
No full textAbobeleira é uma pequena aldeia, em Trás-os-Montes, a três quilómetros da cidade de
Chaves, mas da qual já não tem separação física devido ao crescimento, tanto da
cidade, como da aldeia. É uma aldeia caraterística, da zona, com raízes da vida
quotidiana ainda bastante visíveis, mas que, pela sua localização de proximidade com
a cidade, beneficia de uma grande oferta a nível de Turismo Rural, Cultural, Saúde e
Bem-estar/Termal, Gastronómico e de Desporto.
Casa Matilde é uma propriedade, nessa aldeia, com o potencial de se tornar um
alojamento local, proporcionando um serviço de Bed and Breakfast numa zona
enriquecida pela tranquilidade da natureza e pela oferta da cidade de Chaves. Este
alojamento pretende proporcionar um serviço de qualidade e familiar e reabilitar essa
aldeia típica.
No decorrer deste projeto são desenvolvidos o conceito, o plano de marketing e o plano
financeiro, de modo a mostrar que este negócio é viável. É mostrado, através dos
critérios de rendabilidade, que a Casa Matilde tem potencial para crescer e para fazer
novos investimentos no futuro
Advancements in measuring intangibles for European economies
No full textThis paper provides an overview of the methods developed so far to measure intangible assets and to evaluate their contribution to economic growth. We review the work carried out under the INTAN-Invest research collaboration and the SPINTAN EU Funded project to generate cross-country estimates of intangible investments coherent with the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005) model. We also provide a summary of recent empirical evidence on the role of intangible capital as a driver of growth across industries and sectors in European countries and the US as an illustration of uses of the intangibles assets data
Flat tax reforms in the U.S.: A boon for the income poor
No full textIn this article we quantify the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of
two revenue neutral flat-tax reforms using a model economy that replicates the U.S.
distributions of earnings, income and wealth in very much detail. We find that the less
progressive reform brings about a 2.4 percent increase in steady-state output and a
more unequal distribution of after-tax income. In contrast, the more progressive reform brings about a -2.6 percent reduction in steady-state output and a distribution of aftertax income that is more egalitarian. We also find that in the less progressive flat-tax economy aggregate welfare falls by -0.17 percent of consumption, and in the more
progressive flat-tax economy it increases by 0.45 percent of consumption. In both flattax
reforms the income poor pay less income taxes and obtain sizeable welfare gains
Letter from Mas Sakai to Sakai family, October 12, 1942
No full textTwo letters from Mas Sakai to the Sakai Family, sent from Tanforan Assembly Center, informing the family that he will be leaving for Utah the following day. The letter is laced with sarcasm as Sakai describes living conditions at Tanforan ("it wouldn't be right if I called it a concentration camp would it? After all we get the freedom of the track, don't we?"), and incarcerees' expectations of life at Topaz ("we all look to Utah with a song in our hearts (a funeral march) for there are our golden opportunities. Wonderful, trackless, sand to plant in, and cool refreshing salt water to drink. We especially look forward to the toilets (no seats)").Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Mitochondria: A new member involved in stem cell senescence. An extended commentary on 'Mitochondria pleiotropism in stem cell senescence: Mechanisms and therapeutic approaches by Mas-Bargues C. [Free Radic. Biol. Med. (2023) Nov 1;208:657-671. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.09.019]'
No full textMitochondria: A new member involved in stem cell senescence. An extended commentary on 'Mitochondria pleiotropism in stem cell senescence: Mechanisms and therapeutic approaches by Mas-Bargues C. [Free Radic. Biol. Med. (2023) Nov 1;208:657-671. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.09.019
MATILDE VAN DUN E O DESEJO QUE ALIMENTA A VISÃO
No full textMatilde Van Dum, através dos seus poderes de pitonisa, dialoga constamente com a possibilidade de criação de novas formas de compreensão dos meandros da história e do desejo feminino. As visões de futuro da bela filha de Baltazar Van Dum propiciam uma articulação diferenciada da memória que, a partir desse momento, não se sustentará apenas sobre os pilares do passado, antes pautar-se-á, com base em realidades diversas, projetadas no vir a ser. A visão especial de Matilde, alimentada pelo desejo, ilustra bem o fato de que tanto a história quanto a memória estão longe de serem construídas somente a partir dos fatos, pois dependem diretamente de uma instância subjetiva que pode carregar consigo não só a verdade que foi, mas também aquela que poderia ter sido.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: crítica literária, Pepetela, romance angolano, sentidos físicos
Risk Aversion over Incomes and Risk Aversion over Commodities
No full textThis note determines the precise connection between an agent's attitude towards income risks and his attitude over risks in the underlying consumption space. Our results follow a general mathematical theory connecting the curvature properties of an objective function with the ray-curvature properties of its dual.risk aversion, concavity, duality
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