御選古文淵鑑Yu xuan gu wen yuan jian.Recueil de textes anciens préparé par ordre impérial.

Contient : période antérieure aux Qin, livres 1 à 8 ; dynastie des Qin, livre 9 ; dynastie des Han, livres 10 à 20 ; période des Trois Royaumes, livres 21 et 22 ; dynastie des Jin, livres 23 et 24 ; dynastie des Song, livre 25 ; dynasties des Qi, Liang, Chen, livre 26 ; dynastie des Wei septentrionaux, livre 27 ; dynasties des Qi septentrionaux, Zhou septentrionaux, Sui, livre 28 ; dynastie des Tang, livres 29 à 40 ; période des Cinq Dynasties, livre 41 ; dynastie des Song, livres 42 à 64

沈微垣先生規正圖註王叔和難經脉訣大全Shen wei yuan xian sheng gui zheng tu zhu wang shu he nan jing mo jue da quan.Le Mo jue et le Nan jing, édition collective.

Contient : I刪註脈訣規正Shan zhu mo jue gui zheng.Le Mo jue corrigé ; II圖註八十一難經Tu zhu ba shi yi nan jing.Le Nan jing illustré, en 81 sections

銅人腧穴鍼灸圖經Tong ren shu xue zhen jiu tu jing.Traité illustré de l'acuponcture et du moxa, indiquant les places correspondant aux organes.

Peut-être dû à Wang Wei de (début du XIe siècle), qui présenta à l'empereur (1027 ?) un modèle en cuivre du corps humain. Le titre porte l'indication : ouvrage composé dans la période Tian sheng (1023-1031), gravé de nouveau en 1443. Préface de 1443. Texte, figures, tableaux.3 livres. — Comparer Cat. imp., liv. 103 f. 21 (Tong ren zhen jiu jing, 7 livres).

東園雜字大全Dong yuan za zi da quan.

Manuel encyclopédique.Publié dans la période Jia qing (1796-1820) ; analogue à l'ouvrage Chinois 7707, comprenant en outre le Qian zi wen (Chinois 3290). Cartes et planches, pages divisées entre deux textes. Edition de la salle Yong de, à Canton.53 feuillets.

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Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?

Evidence of falling wages in Catholic cities and rising wages in Protestant cities between 1500 and 1750, during the spread of literacy in the vernacular, is inconsistent with most theoretical models of economic growth. In The Protestant Ethic, Weber suggested an alternative explanation based on culture. Here, a theoretical model confirms that a small change in the subjective cost of cooperating with strangers can generate a profound transformation in trading networks. In explaining urban growth in early-modern Europe, specifications compatible with human-capital versions of the neoclassical model and endogenous-growth theory are rejected in favor of a “small-world” formulation based on the Weber thesis.

Finance and Growth : Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries, 1960-1990

This paper examines the empirical relationship between financial intermediation and economic growth using cross-country and panel data regressions for 69 developing countries for the 1960-1990 period. The main results are : (i) financial development is a significant determinant of economic growth, as it has been shown in cross-sectional regressions; (ii) financial markets cease to exert any effect on real activity when the temporal dimension is introduced in the regressions. The paradox may be explained, in the case of developing countries, by the lack of an entrepreneurial private sector capable to transform the available funds into profitable projects; (iii) the effect of financial development on economic growth is channeled mainly through an increase in investment efficiency.

Causalités à court et à long terme dans les modèles VAR et ARIMA multivariés.

La causalité au sens de Granger est habituellement définie par la prévisibilité d'un vecteur de variables par un autre une période à l'avance. Récemment, Lutkepohl (1990) a proposé de définir la non-causalité entre deux variables (ou vecteurs) par la non-prévisibilité à tous les délais dans le futur. Lorsqu'on considère plus de deux vecteurs (ie. lorsque l'ensemble d'information contient les variables auxiliaires), ces deux notions ne sont pas équivalentes. Dans ce texte, nous généralisons d'abord les notions antérieures de causalités en considérant la causalité à un horizon donné h arbitraire, fini ou infini. Ensuite, nous dérivons des conditions nécessaires et suffisantes de non-causalité entre deux vecteurs de variables (à l'intérieur d'un plus grand vecteur) jusqu'à un horizon donné h. Les modèles considérés incluent les autoregressions vectorielles, possiblement d'ordre infini, et les modèles ARIMA multivariés. En particulier, nous donnons des conditions de séparabilité et de rang pour la non-causalité jusqu'à un horizon h, lesquelles sont relativement simples à vérifier.

Investment Under Demand Uncertainty: the Newsboy Problem Revisited.

In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty but there is no flexibility in our one-period framework. We show how the introduction of global uncertainty reduces the investment of the risk neutral entrepreneur and, even more, that the risk averse one. We also show how marginal increases in risk reduce the optimal capacity of both the risk neutral and the risk averse entrepreneur, without any restriction on the concave utility function and with limited restrictions on the definition of a mean preserving spread. These general results are explained by the fact that the newsboy has a piecewise-linear, and concave, monetary payoff witha kink endogenously determined at the level of optimal capacity. Our results are compared with those in the two literatures on price uncertainty and demand uncertainty, and particularly, with the recent contributions of Eeckhoudt, Gollier and Schlesinger (1991, 1995).

Tests of Conditional Asset Pricing Models in the Brazilian Stock Market

In this paper, we test a version of the conditional CAPM with respect to a local market portfolio, proxied by the Brazilian stock index during the 1976-1992 period. We also test a conditional APT model by using the difference between the 30-day rate (Cdb) and the overnight rate as a second factor in addition to the market portfolio in order to capture the large inflation risk present during this period. The conditional CAPM and APT models are estimated by the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and tested on a set of size portfolios created from a total of 25 securities exchanged on the Brazilian markets. The inclusion of this second factor proves to be crucial for the appropriate pricing of the portfolios.

Wage Flexibility and Contract Structure in Germany

In this paper, we look at how labor market conditions at different points during the tenure of individuals with firms are correlated with current earnings. Using data on individuals from the German Socioeconomic Panel for the 1985-1994 period, we find that both the contemporaneous unemployment rate and prior values of the unemployment rate are significantly correlated with current earnings, contrary to results for the American labor market. Estimated elasticities vary between 9 and 15 percent for the elasticity of earnings with respect to current unemployment rates, and between 6 and 10 percent with respect to unemployment rates at the start of current firm tenure. Moreover, whereas local unemployment rates determine levels of earnings, national rates influence contemporaneous variations in earnings. We interpret this result as evidence that German unions do, in fact, bargain over wages and employment, but that models of individualistic contracts, such as the implicit contract model, may explain some of the observed wage drift and longer-term wage movements reasonably well. Furthermore, we explore the heterogeneity of contracts over a variety of worker and job characteristics. In particular, we find evidence that contracts differ across firm size and worker type. Workers of large firms are remarkably more insulated from the job market than workers for any other type of firm, indicating the importance of internal job markets.