Listar por autor "Pérez Sebastián, Fidel"
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The adoption and adaptation of externally originated ideas
This is a vintage–capital model of technology adoption that takes seriously the fact that new inventions are specific to the environment in which they emerge. The key feature of the model is that the firm can invest resources ... -
Growth and public support to research and imitation: the international connection
This paper studies technology policy within the context of an R&D-based growth model. We first use cross-country data to document several empirical regularities regarding the relationship between public support to research ... -
Growth with technical change and human capital: transition dynamics versus steady state predictions
This paper studies the steady-state and transitional dynamics predictions of an R&D-based growth model and evaluates their performance in explaining income disparities across countries. We fnd that even though steady-state ... -
Matching up the data on education with economic growth models
The growth literature has not yet established how data on education should be introduced in theories involving human capital. Early work used enrolment rates as a proxy of human capital whereas more recently it has utilized ... -
The role of ethnic characteristics in the effect of income shocks on African conflict
Manotas Hidalgo, Beatriz ; Pérez Sebastián, Fidel; Campo-Bescós, Miguel (Elsevier, 2021) Artículo / ArtikuluaThis paper disentangles the ethnic drivers of the effect of food-related income shocks on African conflict employing geo-localized information. We consider diversity and political ethnic variables and several conflict ... -
Transitional dynamics in an R&D-based growth model with imitation: comparing its predictions to the data
Employing cross-country data, this paper evaluates the transitional dynamics predictions of a non-scale growth model of endogenous technology innovation and imitation. We show that, unlike the neoclassical growth framework, ...