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 ...
Casilda Lasso de la Vega from the Universidad del Pais Vasco explains her research to the Navarra Center of International Development.
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“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...