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Public science vs. mission-oriented policies in long-run growth: An agent-based model

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.03.001

Andrea Borsato , André Lorentz

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If inequality is an economic choice, what is the relationship between inequality and growth?

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.02.014

Khanh Duong

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Long-term analysis of Kaldor's law applied to Brazil (1909-2020)

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.03.004

Natalia I. Doré , Eliane Araújo

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Assessing virtual water trade and inequalities in household water footprints across California’s counties

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.02.008

Baobao Liu , Kuishuang Feng , Laixiang Sun , Giovanni Baiocchi , Daoping Wang , Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm

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Structural breaks, institutional quality and productivity growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.03.003

Eunice Adu-Darko , Kefei You

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Visible prices and their influence on inflation expectations of Russian households

IF 5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.02.015

Vadim Grishchenko , Diana Gasanova , Egor Fomin

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Energy prices, inflation, and distribution: A simulation model and policy analysis for Italy

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.03.002

Guilherme Spinato Morlin , Marco Stamegna , Simone D'Alessandro

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A path towards China's energy justice: Is government intervention absolutely necessary?

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.02.018

Lei Chen, Nana Jiang

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Two- and half-centuries of equilibrium economics: Adam Smith and the evisceration of the spatial dimension from the theory of production

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.02.016

Elias L. Khalil

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Do low-carbon city pilots promote carbon equality? From the perspective of regional fairness

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.02.017

Tong Feng , Xiaomin Wang , Nan Wang , Jie Ma , Zhenni Chen , Qiang Tu , Qun Li

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