The researcher Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña of the Navarra Center for International Development spent last week –November 18-22 – at Strathmore Business School in Nairobi, Kenya. “They have launched a Financial Econometrics course, and Robert Mudida, that is the person in charge of this course, proposed me to give some lectures -about 10 hours- on the main topics on this issue,” explained Luis Alberiko. He also gave a Guest Lecture for senior students of the Economics degree on the concepts and ideas on Time Series Analysis.
But this trip was also a way to keep in ...
Pierre Mohnen presented an empirical paper a joint work with George van Leeuwen to test the Porter Hypothesis (PH) with data of firms in the Netherlands. “Simply put”, began Pierre, “the hypothesis by Porter says that regulations are good since they make firms competitive by forcing them to be innovative thereby making them productive”.
Further studies divided the hypothesis to two, the “weak version” and the “strong version”. With the former, the hypothesis is the effect of environmental regulations on environmental innovations. The latter refers to the effect of ...
“How do you indentify the poor?” This is how Casilda Lasso de la Vega from the Universidad del Pais Vasco began her presentation at the NCID weekly seminar. She discussed many previous studies of poverty including Amartya Sen’s 1976 seminal paper in which methodology and aggregative measurements are considered to be the most important elements to measure poverty.
“Even though in recent times there is considerable agreement that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, the approach suggested by Sen should still be followed”, Casilda urged, adding that “now, two cutoffs...