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"Spatial spikes: bridging geography and economics to study distance, agglomeration, and policy" (SPIKES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"Economic geographers and geographical economists have been using different methods in order to analyse the location of economic activity. These different approaches to the same topic have, paradoxically, resulted in very similar geographical configurations: a ‘spiky’ world dominated by large metropoli, where intermediate and peripheral locations tend to matter less and less. This apparent similar ...
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Human Capital, Public Policies, and Income Inequality Within and Across Countries (HUMAN CAPITAL)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

One of the most important challenges in economic sciences is to explain the observed large differences in the wealth of nations. Although, total factor productivity is at the core of income inequality across countries. One of the main difficulties is that there are no measures of quality of education and productivity across countries. To assess the sources of cross-country income inequality, econo ...
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Highly Adaptable and Trustworthy Software using Formal Models (HATS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Software systems are central for the infrastructure of modern society. To justify the huge investments such systems need to live for decades. This requires software which is highly adaptable. Software systems must support a high degree of (spatial) variability to accomodate a range of requirements and operating conditions, and temporal evolvability to allow these parameters to change over time. C ...
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A Quantitative Theory of Labor Supply with Heterogeneous Agents: From Individual to Macro Elasticities (LASUT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The aggregate response of labour supply to business cycle shocks is a central element in macroeconomic analysis and is the object of an important debate among economists. This debate matters as our understanding of the business cycle data and of the consequence of tax policies rely critically on the elasticity of aggregate labour supply. Because the standard macroeconomic analysis is based on a t ...
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