Results from the fight against poverty have not been very significant when we consider the worldwide effort made in the last thirty years. Some areas even show stagnation, leading to the assumption that there is a poverty trap that prevents poor countries from achieving the necessary big push. Based on Myrdal’s concept of circular cumulative causat...
Our main objective is to review the extensive work published by Antonio Pulido throughout his long teaching and research career, using this review to illustrate the evolution in our country of applied economics, in general, and econometrics in particular. In order to ease the tracking of such a large work, the contributions have been grouped around...
Endogeneity problems in demand models occur when certain factors, unobserved by the researcher, affect both demand and the values of a marketing mix variable set by managers. For example, unobserved factors such as style, prestige, or reputation might result in higher prices for a product and higher demand for that product. If not addressed properl...
In this article, we study popularity functions for the French President and Prime Minister. We show that the responsibility hypothesis is validated for the unemployment rate but not for the inflation rate. We also show that voters have not a behavior compatible with the rational expectations hypothesis for the Prime Minister's popularity, and that ...
The main aim of this work is to model tourism demand in the Northern Region of Portugal using econometric models based on general linear model. And to construct an instrument to get in advance the evolution of tourism demand in that Region, since it has shown in recent years, some potential as a significant „magnetism? of tourist flows. For this p...
Cette thèse se propose de spécifier le contenu de la notion d'équilibre. Pour ce faire, on étudie divers modèles qui ont pour point commun de mobiliser une analyse en terme d'équilibre mais qui donnent un sens différent a cette notion. Il ressort de cet examen que la théorie de l'équilibre général concurrentiel et son corolaire, l'équilibre en tant...
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