394 research outputs found
Segona sessió del Postgrau en Correcció de Textos Orals i Escrits: Noves tendències del Català en la formació de mots
No full textConferència a càrrec de Xavier Rull Muruzàbal, professor titular de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili, sobre les noves tendències del català pel que fa a la formació de mots nous4923.mp4
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Recensió del llibre de Xavier Rull (2005), La formació de mots. Qüestions de normativa, Vic, Eumo Editorial, 416 p.
No full textEl títol del llibre objecte d’aquesta recensió no deixa indiferent a qui es dedica a l’ensenyament de la llengua, tant més coneixent-ne l’autor i veient-ne el volum. En efecte, Xavier Rull —estudiós del lèxic, terminògraf, assessor lingüístic, professor i animador de la llista de distribució Zèfir— ha escrit un tractat de 416 pàgines sobre conflictes entre normativa i ús pel que fa a la derivació i algun aspecte morfològic (femenins dels noms d’oficis, professions, tractaments i càrrecs)
Recensió del llibre de Xavier Rull (2005), La formació de mots. Qüestions de normativa, Vic, Eumo Editorial, 416 p.
No full textEl títol del llibre objecte d’aquesta recensió no deixa indiferent a qui es dedica a l’ensenyament de la llengua, tant més coneixent-ne l’autor i veient-ne el volum. En efecte, Xavier Rull —estudiós del lèxic, terminògraf, assessor lingüístic, professor i animador de la llista de distribució Zèfir— ha escrit un tractat de 416 pàgines sobre conflictes entre normativa i ús pel que fa a la derivació i algun aspecte morfològic (femenins dels noms d’oficis, professions, tractaments i càrrecs)
Demographics and the politics of capital taxation in a life-cycle economy
No full textThis article studies the effects of demographics on the mix of tax rates on labor and capital. It uses a quantitative general-equilibrium, overlapping-generationsmodel where tax rates are voted without past commitments in every period and characterized as a Markov equilibrium. In the United States, the younger voting-age population in 1990 compared to 1965 accounts for the observeddecline in the relative capital tax rate between those two years. A younger population raises the net return to capital, leads voters to increase their savings,and results in a preference for lower taxes on capital. Conversely, aging might increase capital taxation
The Anthropozoic era revisited
No full textThis paper explains in some detail the poorly known proposal of Stoppani (1873) regarding the Anthropozoic era, whose beginning was defined by the first traces of human presence on Earth. This author set the stratigraphical bases for the definition of the ‘human era’, but the proposal had two main weaknesses: the dismissal of biological evolution and the lack of an absolute chronology. Further developments in radiometric/palaeomagnetic dating and the elucidation of the main trends and timing of human evolution have provided the necessary information to update the original Anthropocene proposal in chronological terms, maintaining Stoppani’s original definition and stratigraphic markers. This updated proposal follows the rules of the International Stratigraphic Guide and situates the beginning of the Anthropozoic era at the beginning of the Quaternary, the time at which the first human fossils, corresponding to the first species of the genus Homo and corresponding cultural manifestations have been identified and dated. Therefore, the new Anthropozoic era would follow the Cenozoic era, which ended with the Neogene period. Defined in this way, the Quaternary period and its Pleistocene and Holocene epochs would be situated in the new Anthropozoic era. The main strengths and weaknesses of the updated Anthropozoic version are discussed. It is suggested that the updated Anthropozoic proposal might be fully elaborated to evaluate whether it should be submitted to the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences for formalization. © 2020 Lethaia Foundation. Published by John Wiley & Sons LtdPeer reviewe
CARMA-F (CARibbean MAngroves, compilation of fossil pollen records from the Late Cretaceous to the Pliocene)
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is derived from this datasetCARMA-F (CARibbean MAngroves-Fossil) is a dataset that gathers the published fossil pollen records of mangrove taxa from the Caribbean region. The latest update includes nearly 90 localities ranging from the Late Cretaceous to the Pliocene. This dataset has been compiled to facilitate the study of the origin, evolution and diversification of Caribbean mangroves, along with the main environmental drivers involved. The data contained in CARMA-F have been used in a collection of papers by the author organized chronologically that discuss the Eocene origin, the Eocene/Oligocene evolutionary turnover and the Neogene diversification of these iconic tropical/subtropical coastal ecosystems, as occurred in the Neotropical Caribbean region. CARMA-F is provided as a spreadsheet and is open to modifications to adapt it to the particular interests of each researcher. A detailed description of the dataset in available at https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/22/3852. The dataset remains open to further updates, as new data are published/retrieved.Peer reviewe
Consumer default with complete markets: default-based pricing and finite punishment
No full textThis paper studies economies with complete markets where there is positive default on consumer debt. In a simple tractable two-period model, households can default partially, at a finite punishment cost, and competitive intermediaries price loans of different sizes separately. This environment yields only partial insurance. The default-based pricing of debt makes it too costly for the borrower to achieve full insurance and there is too little trade in securities. This framework is in contrast with existing literature. Unlike the literature with default, there are no restrictions on the set of state contingent securities that are issued. Unlike the literature on lack of commitment, limited trade arises without need of debt constraints that rule default out. Compared with the latter, the present approach appears to imply more consumption inequality. An extended model with an infinite horizon, idiosyncratic risk and more realistic assumptions is used to demonstrate the general validity of this approach and its main implications
A model of credit limits and bankruptcy with applications to welfare and indebtedness
No full textThis paper presents a macroeconomic model of unsecured consumer debt and default where credit conditions consist of pre-approved interest rates and borrowing limits, a feature of actual credit cards. All loans, irrespective of their size and risk, take place against the same type of credit line, and some borrowers are credit constrained. This type of situation is shown to arise in a free-entry competitive equilibrium if there are fixed costs in banking and the banks' decisions on interest rates and on credit limits are made separately. Numerical experiments are conducted to study, on one hand, the macroeconomic and welfare effects of the consumer bankruptcy code, and on the other hand, the consequences of various factors for both indebtedness and bankruptcy. Restricting bankruptcy filings - be it through a stricter Chapter 7 means testing or a longer period of credit exclusion - leads to sizable welfare loses. The recent rise in filing rates and debt is best explained by a combination of lower intermediation costs and more severe non-discretionary expenditures shocks. The endogenous response of the credit limit proves to be crucial for these findings
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