Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "convergence"

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    • Interaction Effects in the Relationship Between Growth and Finance 

      Aghion, Philippe (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006)
      This paper analyzes how interacting financial development with initial income, macroeconomic volatility and policy variables, can improve our understanding of convergence and divergence across countries, and also restore ...

    • Intercontinental Community Convergence of Ecology and Morphology in Desert Lizards 

      Melville, Jane; Harmon, Luke J.; Losos, Jonathan (The Royal Society of London, 2006)
      Evolutionary ecologists have long debated the extent to which communities in similar environments but different geographic regions exhibit convergence. On the one hand, if species' adaptations and community structure are ...

    • On Waves, Clusters, and Diffusion: A Conceptual Framework 

      Elkins, Zachary; Simmons, Beth (SAGE Publications, 2005)
      This article makes a conceptual and theoretical contribution to the study of diffusion. The authors suggest that the concept of diffusion be reserved for processes (not outcomes) characterized by a certain uncoordinated ...

    • A Phylogenetic Test for Adaptive Convergence in Rock-dwelling Lizards 

      Revell, Liam J.; Johnson, Michele A.; Schulte, James A. II; Kolbe, Jason J.; Losos, Jonathan (Blackwell Publishing, 2007)
      Phenotypic similarity of species occupying similar habitats has long been taken as strong evidence of adaptation, but this approach implicitly assumes that similarity is evolutionarily derived. However, even derived ...

    • The Relationship Between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps 

      Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Murtin, Fabrice (2010)
      This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and ...

    • Sex, Evolution, and the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm 

      Meir, Reshef; Parkes, David C. (ACM, 2015)
      We consider a recent innovative theory by Chastain et al. on the role of sex in evolution [PNAS'14]. In short, the theory suggests that the evolutionary process of gene recombination implements the celebrated multiplicative ...