The global welfare impact of China: Trade integration and technological change

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a multi-country quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model.We simulate two alternative growth scenarios: a "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in whichChina's comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to theworld productivity frontier. Contrary to a well-known conjecture (Samuelson 2004),the large majority of countries experience significantly larger welfare gains whenChina's productivity growth is biased towards its comparative disadvantage sectors.This finding is driven by the inherently multilateral nature of world trade.

Latin 14443

Epistolae Pauli

Speed-cohesion trade-offs in collective decision making in ants and the concept of precision in animal behaviour

In decision making, speed-accuracy trade-offs are well known and often inevitable because accuracy depends on being well informed and gathering information takes time. However, trade-offs between speed and cohesion, that is the degree to which a group remains together as a single entity, as a result of their decision making, have been comparatively neglected. We combine theory and experimentation to show that in decision-making systems, speed-cohesion trade-offs are a natural complement to speed-accuracy trade-offs and are therefore of general importance. We then analyse the decision performance of 32 rock ant, Temnothorax albipennis, colonies in experiments in which accuracy of collective decision making was held constant, but time urgency varied. These experiments reveal for the first time an adaptive speed-cohesion trade-off in collective decision making and how this is achieved. In accord with different time constraints, colonies can decide quickly, at the cost of social unity, or they can decide slowly with much greater cohesion. We discuss the similarity between cohesion and the term precision as used in statistics and engineering. This emphasizes the generality of speed versus cohesion/precision trade-offs in decision making and decision implementation in other fields within animal behaviour such as sexually selected motor displays and even certain aspects of birdsong. We also suggest that speed versus precision trade-offs may occur when individuals within a group need to synchronize their activity, and in collective navigation, cooperative hunting and in certain escape behaviours.

A latin defixio (Sisak, Croatia) to the river god Savus mentioning L. Licinius Sura, Hispanus*

This paper focuses on the analysis of a judicial defixio (AIJ557) found in 1912 in the River Kupa, a tributary of the Save, near Sisak (Siscia, Pannonia Superior), that invokes the river god Savus, as well as the ancient Latin goddess Tacita Muta. Among the targets, some of whom are specially stated to come from the western Mediterranean, we pay special attention to Lucius Licinius Sura, Hispanus. We also investigate the religious horizon implicit in the ritual offering, as well as the social and historical context of the information.

Oeuvres de Tacite ; 2-3. Annales de Tacite, en latin et en français. T. 2, 1 / Regnes de Tibère et de Caïus. Troisième édition, revue et corrigée ; par J. H. Dotteville,...

[Annales (français-latin). 1793]

Oeuvres de Tacite ; 2-3. Annales de Tacite, en latin et en français. T. 3, 2 / Regnes de Tibère et de Caïus. Troisième édition, revue et corrigée ; par J. H. Dotteville,...

[Annales (français-latin). 1793]

Du Commerce établi entre l'âme et le corps, ou Traité de la liaison qui subsiste entre le spirituel et le matériel, fidèlement rendu du latin d'Emanuel de Swedenborg, par le traducteur de la Nouvelle Jérusalem et de sa céleste doctrine. Édition augmentée du discours préliminaire de Th. Hartley,...

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The Spatial Effects of Trade Openness: A Survey

This paper surveys the literature on the implications of trade liberalisation for intra-national economic geographies. Three results stand out. First, neither urban systems models nor new economic geography models imply a robust prediction for the impact of trade openness on spatial concentration. Whether trade promotes concentration or dispersion depends on subtle modelling choices among which it is impossible to adjudicate a priori. Second, empirical evidence mirrors the theoretical indeterminacy: a majority of cross-country studies find no significant effect of openness on urban concentration or regional inequality. Third, the available models predict that, other things equal, regions with inherently less costly access to foreign markets, such as border or port regions, stand to reap the largest gains from trade liberalisation. This prediction is confirmed by the available evidence. Whether trade liberalisation raises or lowers regional inequality therefore depends on each country's specific geography.

Latin 12141

Contient : Divers traités de S. Jean Chrysostome ; Ymnus de S. Cecilia

Latin 12229

Contient : Extraits de S. Augustin, S. Ambroise, S. Jérôme, Cassien et S. Basile ; Traité de S. Anselme sur la béatitude éternelle, précédé d'une lettre d'Eadmer ; Lettres sur l'abstinence adressées aux moines de Préaux

Morales de S. Grégoire sur Job. Latin 12243

Ex-libris : f.232v : « Liber Germano de Pratis pertinet almo. » ; — f.1 : « Sti Germani a Pratis »

Ambroise Autpert, sur l'Apocalypse. Latin 12287

Catalogue de l'abbaye de Corbie (éd. d'E. Coyecque, Cat des mss des bibliothèques de France, XIX, p.XI-XLVIII) XIIIe s.: n°48; 1621: n°109 Ex-libris : f.1 : « ex libris S. Petri Corbeiensis » ; — « Sti Germani a Pratis »

Ambroise Autpert, sur l'Apocalypse. Latin 12288

Catalogue de l'abbaye de Corbie (éd. d'E. Coyecque, Cat des mss des bibliothèques de France, XIX, p.XI-XLVIII) XIIIe s.: n°48; 1621: n°109 Ex-libris : f.1 : « liber sancti petri corbeie » ; — « Sti Germani a Pratis »