Filippos Papasavvas
How have GPTs affected the US economy?
Jovanovic et al (2005) analyzed the impact of two general-purpose technologies (GPTs) on the US economy: electricity and information...
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Filippos Papasavvas
May 28, 2023
On the relationship between output and unemployment
Knotek (2007) examined whether the statistical relationship of real output growth with the unemployment rate, as captured by Arthur...
Filippos Papasavvas
Dec 4, 2022
Economic impact of soil erosion may not be as large as it seems
Panagos et al. (2018) used a general equilibrium model to estimate the cost of soil erosion by water on EU GDP in 2010. According to...
Nikolas Neos
Jul 12, 2022
Does democracy make you richer?
Using data covering 175 countries from 1960 to 2010, Acemoglu et al (2019) estimate that, on average, democratization alone increases GDP...
Ioannis Milioritsas
Feb 5, 2022
The economic impact of climate change - A debate among economists
In their article, Nordhaus et al. (2017) investigate the economic impact of global warming. They estimate that a 3⁰C and 6 ⁰C increase in...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
What drove Portugal’s economic slump over the 2000-2007 period?
The Reis (2013) paper ‘The Portuguese Slump and Crash and the Euro Crisis’, builds a theoretical macroeconomic model to explain...
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