Collections Fribourg

Collection fribourgeoise
La collection fribourgeoise rassemble plusieurs collections particulières qui sont décrites sous des rubriques spécifiques, comme les journaux fribourgeois ou les ouvrages de références fribourgeois. Elle contient également des versions numériques de documents possédés par la BCU Fribourg qui font partie du patrimoine fribourgeois.

La numérisation de ces documents suit son cours.
Université de Fribourg

Regional economic integration and factor mobility in unified Germany

Böhm, Sebastian

(Working Papers SES ; 463)

The massive movement of capital and labor in opposite directions is the most striking characteristic of economic integration of Eastern and Western Germany. Beyond that, wage-setting behavior during the early years of unification and massive public social transfers have affected the transition path of the Eastern economy. In this paper, I set up a two-region open economy model with capital and...

Université de Fribourg

Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?

Böhm, Sebastian ; Grossmann, Volker ; Steger, Thomas M.

(Working Papers SES ; 452)

The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth triggered by an increase in public education expenditure on behalf of those with high learning ability eventually...