Three Essays in Applied Economics

2018

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2013

Journal of Economic Theory, 2020

De Economist, 2005

2014

April 2007L’université de Paris 1 n’entend donner aucune approbation ni improbation aux opinions émises dans cette thèse. Ces opinions doivent être considérées comme propres à leur auteur. 1 Acknowledgements I am especially grateful to my PhD supervisors, Bernard Paulré and Giovanni Dosi, who, surprisingly enough, always managed to make time to read my early drafts and discuss them with me despite their busy schedules. Indeed, many of the better ideas to be found in this thesis emerged from discussions with them.

2012

these papers are part of our efforts as researchers to investigate Applied economics themes. All five paperscontain research in applied economics, themes such as causality betwen wages and prices, unemployment and labour markets, Rogofs theory for Macedonia, institutions and economic growth etc.

2011

Page 1. Munich Personal RePEc Archive Competition Salvadori, Neri and Signorino, Rodolfo University of Pisa, Department of Economics, University of Palermo 07. April 2011 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/38387/ MPRA Paper No. 38387, posted 26. April 2012 / 12:26 Page 2. 1 COMPETITION1 Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino2 Ever since economics has become an autonomous scientific discipline, competition has been one of its basic concepts.