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Visit of Professor Ramon Marimon, Secretary of State, Ministry of Science and Technology, Spain
No full textPhoto 01: Prof. R. Marimon Photo 02: Ramon Marimon, Secretary of State of Spain's Ministry of Science and Technology, greets CERN director-general Luciano Maian
China’s Business Cycles between 1954 – 2004: Productivity and Fiscal Policy Changes
Full text linkWe study the real business cycles in China between 1954-2006, and examine the changes after China’s market-oriented reforms starting in 1978. We overcome some data problems and find that the economic volatility is generally moderated after 1978. However, the relative volatility of each variable to output diverges. We undertake a neo-classical approach to investigate factors that can drive the features of long-term fluctuations and the differences between the pre-1978 and the post-1978 periods. We find that TFP process can explain the main features of fluctuations and the general moderation but not the relative volatility changes. We show that policy changes in government expenditure can account for the relative volatility divergency. Counterfactual experiments are also provided to discover the role of each factor in explaining the long-term fluctuation features in China.business cycles, fiscal policy, market-oriented reforms, China
Assessing welfare impacts of some debt-consolidation episodes in the European Union
Full text linkThis paper aims at characterizing debt consolidation processes put forward by some European countries in order to assess welfare and, in particular, the inequality effects involved. For that we built a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model capable of exploring the relationship between fiscal policy variables and the endogenous crosssection distribution of income and wealth. Results show that, with the exception of the Belgian case, all consolidation strategies entail positive welfare gains. The transition costs affect all episodes and are determinant in sorting among the welfareenhancing strategies. Our results confirm the superiority of the adjustments based on unproductive expenditures over those based on tax increases or social transfer reductions. Finally, all strategies involve lower welfare inequality costs.fiscal consolidation dynamics, European Union, heterogeneous agent model, inequality, welfare.
Welfare-improving Government Behaviour and Inequality - Inspection Using a Heterogeneous-agent Model
Full text linkGovernments behavior is expected to be non-neutral in terms of impacts on both welfare and inequality. In spite of their multivariate form, a tentative assessment of such inequality impacts can be provided by using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous-agents and where wealth and income distribution is determined endogenously. Using a model capable of exploring the relationship between fiscal policy variables and the endogenous cross-section distribution of income, wealth, consumption and leisure, this paper produces a welfare and inequality analysis of several equilibriums resulting from different combinations of debt levels and of government budget variables. Moreover, such assessment is based on the empirical reality of the EU countries.government budget composition and debt, heterogeneous agent model, idiosyncratic shock, inequality, welfare.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Essays on Asset Pricing, Banking and the Macroeconomy
Full text linkDefense date: 28/11/2011
Jury Members:
Prof. Morten Ravn, University College London, Supervisor
Prof. Ramon Marimon, EUI
Prof. Alexander Michaelides, University of Cyprus
Prof. Tommaso Monacelli, Università Bocconino abstract availabl
Matlab code for Discrete State-Space Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies
No full textThese are the Matlab programs discussed in Craig Burnside, Discrete State-Space Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies, in Ramon Marimon and Andrew Scott, eds. Computational Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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