How did Europe overtake China? We construct a simple Malthusian model with two sectors, and use it to explain how European per capita incomes and urbanization rates could surge ahead of Chinese ones. That living standards could exceed subsistence levels at all in a Malthusian setting should be surprising. Rising fertility and falling mortality ought to have reversed any gains. We show that prod...

This paper assumes that output depends on a large number of variables, but that economic theory has only revealed a subset of these variables. The variables that determine output include exogenous shocks, as well as endogenous variables that depend on both the exogenous variables and agents’ expectations. This paper examines a policy maker’s attempts to forecast output under two different types...

This paper describes the theoretical and empirical features of G-Cubed, a multicountry, multi-sector intertemporal general equilibrium model. G-Cubed combines the attractive features of macroeconometric models and computable general equilibrium models into a unified framework. It has been used to study a variety of topics including: greenhouse gas policy, trade liberalization, tax policy and ma...

The article presents the results of energy efficiency study and light quality LED illuminators (lamps) for general lighting, in particular colorimetric parameters, flux modulation photobiological safety. It is shown that two-base lamps with G13 base luminaires outdoor lighting have achieved class A++. E27 indoor fixtures diffusers a output 25–35% lower correspond to classes A+, A, B. Correlated...

The main goal of the present paper is to analyze the effects of currency collapses (a large devaluation of country’s nominal exchange rate) on real gross domestic products of six Asian countries (Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Korea, and Turkey). A yearly data is collected from the WDI of the World Bank over the period 1980-2011. The econometric model includes the real GDP growt...

This paper uses annual data on world oil price and consumption from 1965 to 2006 to calibrate a Hotelling model of optimal nonrenewable resource extraction. Numerical solutions are generated for various specifications of the elasticity of demand for both isoelastic demand and linear demand under each of two possible market structures: perfect competition and monopoly. Prior to the 1973 oil cris...

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In this paper, we present a review of various computational experiments concerning neural network (NN) models developed for regional employment forecasting. NNs are nowadays widely used in several fields because of their flexible specification structure. A series of NN experiments is presented in the paper, using two data sets on German NUTS-3 districts. Individual forecasts are computed by our...