1,068 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
Matilde Serao in Sweden. A Voice of "The New Italy"
No full textThis chapter examines the contemporary reception of Matilde Serao's works in Swedish newspapers from 1885 to the first years of the twentieth century. This analysis provides a historical background for understanding why Serao's masterpiece Il paese di cuccagna (1891) was translated in Swedish as early as 1892. In fact, Serao was already known to the Swedish public through the activity of C.D. af Wirsén, an important conservative critic who reviewed her original work and contributed to establishing Serao's reputation as a major contemporary author. Furthermore, examination of recently digitalized Swedish newspapers shows that Serao's short stories were published on at least twenty occasions from 1888 to 1897. These anonymous translations can be attributed with a high degree of probability to the pen of Ellen Lundberg-Nyblom, the translator of Il paese di cuccagna. Swedish reviewers greeted Serao as a master of vivid description and an insightful painter of human passions. At the same time, the fact that Serao, being a woman, was professionally active as a journalist and a newspaper editor attracted attention of Swedish media, transforming the Neapolitan author into a public figure known to a broader audience.Ce chapitre traite de la réception des œuvres de Matilde Serao dans les journaux suédois, de 1885 aux premières années du xxe siècle. Avant la traduction de son chef-d’œuvre Il paese di Cuccagna (1891) dès 1892, Serao était déjà connue en Suède grâce au critique C.D. af Wirsén, qui l’a présentée comme une autrice contemporaine de premier plan. Les traductions anonymes des nouvelles de Serao, publiées entre 1888 et 1897 et attribuées ici à Ellen Lundberg-Nyblom, ont joué un rôle tout aussi important.</p
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
Matilde Espinosa o la Metáfora de la Poesía
No full textThe work written by the Colombian poet Matilde Espinosa de Pérez de serves to be
known and recognized by the literary review, so according to this, the article below is a study
about two of her last works: The dark land and The town gets into dark. This paper analyses the
poetic conception of the female author, the a esthetic connection of her work with her passing
within everyday life as a mother, woman and female writer and, the standing she considers
among pain, life and death as elements that constitutes her poetic ar
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
Yoroppa, tokuni Itaria ni okeru Encho no juyo ni tsuite
No full textThe essay analyzes the reception of San'yutei Encho, in Europe and in Italy, starting from the fundamental role of Lafcadio Hearn to the most recent translation in Italian, "The Peony Lantern", of the author of the essay. After the stages of presentation of Encho in Europe, the author of the essay points out that in the case of Italy, the contemporary Italian ghosts literature prepared a fertile ground to receive Encho in Italy
Mori Ogai. Il romanticismo e l'effimero. La trilogia tedesca
No full text"Il romanticismo e l’effimero" raccoglie e commenta, con un approccio originale, i primi tre racconti dello scrittore Mori ?gai, conosciuti nell’insieme come “trilogia tedesca”, mettendo in evidenza come l’autore abbia unito il tema romantico europeo con l’estetica dell’effimero giapponese. "Romanticism and the ephemeral" gathers and comments, with an original approach, the first three stories of the author Mori ?gai, known as "German trilogy", highlighting how the author has joined the European romantic theme with the Japanese aesthetics of ephemerality
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
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