Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Subject "Macroeconomics"

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  • The Economic Effects of Improving Investor Rights in Portugal 

    Castro, Rui; Clementi, Gian Luca (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-02)
    The Portuguese economy has performed remarkably well since joining the EU in 1986. Output per worker grew at an annual rate of 2.25%. The relative price of investment has declined. Real investment has increased compared to output, in part fuelled by ...

  • Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development 

    Castro, Rui; Clementi, Gian Luca; MACDONALD, Glenn (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-07)
    Poor countries have lower PPP–adjusted investment rates and face higher relative prices of investment goods. It has been suggested that this happens either because these countries have a relatively lower TFP in industries producing capital goods, or ...

  • Spouses and entrepreneurship 

    Galindo da Fonseca, Joao; Berube, Charles (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-05)
    Does having a spouse influence an individual’s decision to start a firm and what firms they create? The answer to this question is crucial for our understanding of how recent changes to family composition influence firm creation. We develop a model of ...

  • Spouses, children and entrepreneurship 

    Galindo da Fonseca, Joao; Berubé, Charles (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2020-04)
    We develop a model of endogenous entrepreneurship and marriage. Spouses influence entrepreneurship via three channels: they reduce benefits by working less the more profitable the business is, they reduce costs by working more in case of business ...

  • Unemployment, entrepreneurship and firm outcomes 

    Galindo da Fonseca, Joao (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-05)
    Are there differences between firms created by unemployed individuals relative to otherwise identical employed individuals? The answer is crucial for understanding the impact of policies that promote entrepreneurship among the unemployed. I develop an ...

  • Why Have Aggregate Skilled Hours Become So Cyclical Since the Mid-1980's? 

    Castro, Rui; Coen-Pirani, Daniele (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
    This paper documents and discusses a dramatic change in the cyclical behavior of aggregate hours worked by individuals with a college degree (skilled workers) since the mid-1980’s. Using the CPS outgoing rotation data set for the period 1979:1-2003:4, ...