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Wage Bargaining and Induced Technical Change in a Linear Economy: Model and Application to the US (1963-2003)
In a simple one-sector, two-class, fixed-proportions economy, wages are set through axiomatic bargaining a`la Nash (1950). As for choice of technology, firms choose the direction of factor augmentations to maximize the rate of unit cost reduction (Kennedy 1964, and more recently Funk 2002). The ag-gregate environment resulting by self-interested decisions made by economic agents is described by a two-dimensional dynamical system in the employment rate and output/capital ratio. The economy converges cyclically to a long-run equilibrium involving a Harrod-neutral profile of technical change, a constant rate of employment of labor, and constant input shares. The type of oscillations predicted by the model matches the available data on the United States (1963-2003). Finally, institutional change, as captured by variations in workersâ bargaining power, has a positive effect on the rate of output growth but a negative effect on employment.Bargaining, Induced Technical Change, Factor Shares, Employment.
Gamma rays from hidden millisecond pulsars
The properties were studied of a new class of gamma ray sources consisting of millisecond pulsars totally or partially surrounded by evaporating material from irradiated companion stars. Hidden millisecond pulsars offer a unique possibility to study gamma ray, optical and radio emission from vaporizing binaries. The relevance of this class of binaries for GRO observations and interpretation of COS-B data is emphasized
Wage Bargaining and Induced Technical Change in a Linear Economy: Model and Application to the US (1963-2003)
In a simple one-sector, two-class, fixed-proportions economy, wages are set through axiomatic bargaining a la Nash [1950]. As for choice of technology, firms choose the direction of factor augmentations to maximize the rate of unit cost reduction (Kennedy [1964], and more recently Funk [2002]). The aggregate environment resulting by self-interested decisions made by economic agents is described by a two-dimensional dynamical system in the employment rate and output/capital ratio. The economy converges cyclically to a long-run equilibrium involving a Harrod-neutral prole of technical change, a constant rate of employment of labor, and constant input shares. The type of oscillations predicted by the model matches the available data on the United States (1963-2003). Finally, institutional change, as captured by variations in workers' bargaining power, has a positive effect on the rate of output growth but a negative effect on employment.Bargaining; Induced Technical Change; Factor Shares; Employment
First-passage phenomena in hierarchical networks
In this paper we study Markov processes and related first passage problems on
a class of weighted, modular graphs which generalize the Dyson hierarchical
model. In these networks, the coupling strength between two nodes depends on
their distance and is modulated by a parameter . We find that, in the
thermodynamic limit, ergodicity is lost and the "distant" nodes can not be
reached. Moreover, for finite-sized systems, there exists a threshold value for
such that, when is relatively large, the inhomogeneity of the
coupling pattern prevails and "distant" nodes are hardly reached. The same
analysis is carried on also for generic hierarchical graphs, where interactions
are meant to involve -plets () of nodes, finding that ergodicity is
still broken in the thermodynamic limit, but no threshold value for is
evidenced, ultimately due to a slow growth of the network diameter with the
size
X-ray emission from the PSR B1259--63 system near apastron
The PSR B1259--63 system contains a 47 ms radio pulsar in a highly eccentric
binary with a Be-star companion. Strongly time variable X-ray emission was
reported from this system as the pulsar was near apastron in 1992-early 1993.
The variability was primarily deduced from an apparent non-detection of the
\psr system during a first pre-apastron \ros observation in February~1992. We
have re-analyzed the \ros observations of the \psr system. Contrary to the
results of a previous analysis, we find that the \psr system was detected by
\ros during the first off-axis February~1992 observation. The intensity of the
soft X-ray emission of the \psr system before and after the 1992 apastron
appears to vary at most by a factor . Our results sensibly constrain
theoretical models of X-ray emission from the \psr system.Comment: LATEX, Accepted for publ. in ApJ
Time Resolved GRB Spectroscopy
We present the main results of a study of time-resolved spectra of 43 intense
GRBs detected by BATSE. We considered the 4-parameter Band model and the
Optically Thin Synchrotron Shock model (OTSSM). We find that the large majority
of time-resolved spectra of GRBs are in remarkable agreement with the OTSSM.
However, about 15 % of initial GRB pulses show an apparent low-energy photon
suppression. This phenomenon indicates that complex radiative conditions
modifying optically thin emission may occur during the initial phases of some
GRBs.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, Paper presented at the 5th Huntsville Symposium,
Huntsville (Alabama) Oct. 199
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