What factors determine the environmental and quality of life conditions that exist in different regions of the world? What factors can explain how these conditions evolve through time? This paper empirically examines the answers to these questions, focusing on the link between economic freedom, its impact on institutional formation, and environmental quality. Compiling a new panel data set that...

We distill the main insights from recent trade models on firms’ responses to globalisation. Our primary aim is to assess the economic impact and the welfare implications of the resulting reallocation of resources across firms and countries. In so doing, we bring theory into life through the numerical implementation of a theoretical framework calibrated on European data, which encompasses aspect...

This paper develops a uni ̄ed growth model that captures the historical evolution of population, technology, and output. It encompasses the endogenous transition between three regimes that have characterized economic development. The economy evolves from a Malthusian regime, where technological progress is slow and population growth prevents any sustained rise in income per capita, into a Post-M...

This paper presents an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni"ed theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long transition from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to sustained economic growth. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All...

Our work encompasses subjects of urban planning, urban design, urban morphology, and the link between geographical information systems (GIS) and urban visualization. Our area of research focuses on the way people conceptualize the urban environment. The visualization technique discussed in this paper is an attempt to provide users with a tool to create their own sense of urban legibility, which...

S | 103 Which Institutions, Legal and Economic, Allow Innovations? Thami Piaia Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL The following work has as its main goal to explain the asymetric paths of technological innovation in Brazil and United States and to show how the "Lei da Inovação Brasileira" (Lei 10.973/04 Brazilian Innovation Act) can contribute to ameliorate th...

Recent studies have investigated the relationship between a country’s overall measure of economic freedom and its economic performance over time. On the one hand, institutions promoting economic freedoms are thought to increase productivity (Dawson 1998) and investment opportunities (Besley 1995). However, while economic freedom may be certainly desirable from a normative perspective, De Hann a...