Last update: January 2010
Academic functions and contact
Professor of Economics, department of economics,
Université catholique de Louvain, and member of the board of
the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
Research co-director at CORE.
Part-time Professor, department
of economics, University of Glasgow.
Associate editor
Macroeconomic
Dynamics
Mathematical Population Studies
Mathematical Social Sciences
Journal of Public Economic Theory
Annales d'Economie et Statistique
Contact
Université catholique de
Louvain
Department of Economics and CORE
Place Montesquieu, 3
B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve
Belgium
Tel: (32) 10 47 38 48 or (32) 10 47 43 31 (CORE)
Fax: (32) 10 47 39 45
E-mail: Raouf.Boucekkine@uclouvain.be
Research Profile and selected publications per area
1. Mathematical and computational methods
``Environmental
quality versus economic performance: a dynamic game approach",
(with J. Krawczyk
and T. Vallée), Optimal
Control, Applications and Methods, forthcoming.
``On explosive dynamics in R&D-based models of
endogenous growth", (with N. Hritonenko and Y.
Yatsenko), Nonlinear
Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 71, e693-e700, 2009.
``Special functions for the
study of economic dynamics: The case of the Lucas-Uzawa model", (with
R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Journal of
Mathematical Economics 44, 33-54, 2008.
``Modelling vintage
structures with DDEs: Principles and applications", (with D. de la
Croix and O.
Licandro), Mathematical Population Studies 11, 151-179,
2004.
``An alternative methodology
for solving nonlinear forward-looking models", Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 19, 711-734, 1995.
2. Vintage capital
theory
``Vintage capital and the
dynamics of the AK model", (with O. Licandro, L. Puch and F. del
Rio), Journal of Economic Theory 120, 39-72, 2005.
``Endogenous vs exogenously
driven fluctuations in vintage capital models", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 88,
161-187, 1999.
``Creative destruction,
investment volatility and the average age of capital", (with M.
Germain, O. Licandro and A. Magnus),
Journal of Economic
Growth 3, 361-384, 1998.
``Replacement echoes in the
vintage capital growth model", (with M. Germain and O. Licandro),
Journal of Economic Theory 74, 333-348, 1997.
3. Development and
economic demography
``How do epidemics induce
behavioral changes?", (with R. Desbordes and H. Latzer), Journal of Economic Growth 14,
233-264, 2009.
``Demographic,
economic and institutional factors in the transition to modern growth
in England:
1530-1860", (with D. de la Croix and D. Peeters), Population and Development Review, Supplement to Volume 34, 126-148,
2008.
``Early litteracy achievements, population density, and
the transition to modern growth", (with D. de la Croix and D. Peeters),
The Journal of the European
Economic Association 5,
183-226, 2007.
``Vintage human Capital,
demographic trends and endogenous growth", (with D. de la Croix and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 104, 340-375,
2002.
4. Technological
progress and economic growth
``Bridging the gap between
growth theory and economic geography: The spatial Ramsey model", (with
C. Camacho and B. Zou), Macroeconomic
Dynamics 13, 20-45, 2009.
``Human capital
accumulation and the transition from specialization to multi-tasking",
(with P. Crifo), Macroeconomic
Dynamics 12, 320-344, 2008.
``Obsolescence and
modernization in the growth process", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Development Economics 77,
153-171, 2005.
''Embodied technological
progress, learning and the productivity slowdown", (with O. Licandro
and F. del Rio), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105,
87-98, 2003.
New stuff
Optimal
Control of Age-structured Populations in
Economy, Demography, and the Environment, co-edited by
Natalia Hrtonenko, Yuri Yatsenko and myself. The book is in press, and
will be available in March 2010. This collection of
contributed articles covers a wide range of topics in mathematical
modelling of
interlinked economic, technological and environmental processes. The
unifying theme
of the book is the integration of applied mathematical models that
describe and
optimize the mutual impact of economy, demography, technological
change, and
the environment on global, regional and local levels.
``Introduction
to the special issue on sustainability´´, Mathematical Social Sciences,
forthcoming 2010. This editorial provides a bird's eye view of
the papers included in the special issue, which represent the
different strands that are emerging in the literature on sustainability
(inter-generational justice, environment and natural resources,
demography and policies).
``Promoting
clean technologies under imperfect competition'', (with Th.
Azomahou and P. Nguyen Van), revised December 2009.
``Sustainability,
optimality and viability in the Ramsey model´´, (with
N. Bonneuil), September 2009.
``Scarcity,
regulation and endogenous technical progress'', (with N.
Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko), revised September 2009 (previous version
entitled ``Growing under constraint: Exploring the mechanisms of
modernization").
``Maintenance
and investment: complements or substitutes? A reappraisal´´,
(with G. Fabbri and F. Gozzi), revised September 2009.
Refereed publications
``Towards
an understanding of trade-offs between regional wealth, tightness of a
common environmental constraint, and the sharing rules",
(with J. Krawczyk and T. Vallée), Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, forthcoming.
``Environmental
quality versus economic performance: a dynamic game approach",
(with J. Krawczyk
and T. Vallée), Optimal
Control, Applications and Methods, forthcoming.
``On
the distributional consequences
of epidemics", (with JP. Laffargue), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
34, 231-245, 2010.
``Capital
maintenance as a key development tool", (with B. Martinez and C.
Saglam), Scottish Journal of
Political Economy, forthcoming.
``On explosive dynamics in
R&D-based models of
endogenous growth", (with N. Hritonenko and Y.
Yatsenko), Nonlinear
Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 71, e693-e700, 2009.
``How do
epidemics induce
behavioral changes?", (with R. Desbordes and H. Latzer), Journal of Economic Growth 14, 233-264, 2009.
``Technological
progress, obsolescence and depreciation", (with F. del Rio and B.
Martinez), Oxford Economic
Papers 61,
440-466, 2009.
``The burden
sharing of pollution abatement costs in a multiregional small open
economy´´, (with M. Germain), Topics
in Macroeconomics (The
Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics) 9, Article 21, 2009.
``A closer look at the
relationship between life expectancy and economic growth´´,
(with B. Diene and Th. Azomahou), International
Journal of Economic Theory 5,
201-244, 2009.
``Bridging the gap between
growth theory and economic geography: The spatial Ramsey model", (with
C. Camacho and B. Zou), Macroeconomic
Dynamics 13, 20-45, 2009.
``A Note on Global Dynamics and Imbalance Effects in
the Lucas-Uzawa Model´´, (with B. Martinez and R.
Ruiz-Tamarit), International Journal
of Economic Theory
4, 503-518, 2008.
``Vintage capital", (with D.
de la Croix and O. Licandro),
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, S. Durlauf
and L. Blume (Eds.), 628-631, Palgrave-McMillan, 2008.
``Human capital
accumulation and the transition from specialization to multi-tasking",
(with P. Crifo), Macroeconomic
Dynamics 12,
320-344, 2008.
``Special functions for the
study of economic dynamics: the case of the Lucas-Uzawa model", (with
R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Journal of
Mathematical Economics 44, 33-54, 2008.
``Demographic,
economic and institutional factors in the transition to modern growth
in England: 1530-1860", (with D. de la Croix and D.
Peeters), Population and Development
Review, Supplement to Volume 34,
on Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity
Growth, A. Prskawetz, D. Bloom and W. Lutz (Eds.), 126-148, 2008.
``Growth economics of epidemics: A review of the theory", (joint with
B. Diene and Th. Azomahou), Mathematical
Population Studies 15,
1-26, 2008.
``Early litteracy achievements, population
density,
and the transition to modern growth", (with D. de la Croix and D.
Peeters), The Journal of the
European Economic Association 5, 183-226, 2007.
``Optimal control in
infinite
horizons: a Sobolev space approach", (with C. Le Van and C. Saglam), Economic
Theory 32, 497-509, 2007.
``Capital
maintenance Vs technology adoption under embodied technical progress",
(with B. Martinez and C. Saglam), Contributions
to Macroeconomics, Volume 6
(1), Article 7 (The
Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics), 2006.
"On the relationship between longevity and
development", (with B. Diene and Th. Azomahou), The International Journal of Ecology and
Development 6, 31-50,
2007.
``Obsolescence and
modernization in the growth process", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Development Economics 77,
153-171, 2005.
``Vintage capital and the
dynamics of the AK model", (with O. Licandro, L. Puch and F. del
Rio), Journal of Economic Theory 120, 39-72, 2005.
"The development problem
under embodiment", (with B. Martinez and C. Saglam), Review
of Development Economics 10, 42-58, 2006.
"Imbalance effects in the
Lucas model: An analytical exploration", (with R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Topics
in Macroeconomics, Volume 4
(1), Article 15 (The
Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics), 2004.
"Modelling vintage
structures
with DDEs: Principles and applications", (with D. de la Croix and O.
Licandro), Mathematical Population Studies 11, 151-179,
2004.
''Technology adoption
under embodiment: A two-stage optimal control approach'', (with C.
Saglam and T. Vallée), Macroeconomic Dynamics 8,
250-271, 2004.
''Energy saving technical
progress and optimal capital stock: The role of embodiment", (with. A.
Pommeret), Economic Modelling 21, 429-444, 2004
.
''Early mortality declines
at
the dawn of modern growth'', (with D. de la Croix and O. Licandro), Scandinavian
Journal of Economics 105, 401-418, 2003.
''Replacement, adoption and
economic dynamics: Lessons from a canonical creative destruction
model", (with B. Martinez), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
14, 339-359, 2003.
``Information technologies,
embodiment and growth", (with D. de la Croix), Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 27, 2007-2034, 2003 .
''Embodied technological
progress, learning and the productivity slowdown", (with O. Licandro
and F. del Rio), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105,
87-98, 2003.
''Investment and capital
maintenance: Complements or Substitutes'', (with R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Journal
of Economics 78, 1-28, 2003.
``Vintage human Capital,
demographic trends and endogenous growth", (with D. de la Croix and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 104, 340-375,
2002.
``Technological shocks and
IT
revolutions", (with D. de la Croix and Y. Vailakis), Recherches
Economiques de Louvain 68, Special issue on The New
Economy: Implications and Viability (Boucekkine and Wasmer, Eds.),
75-89, 2002.
``Numerical solution by
iterative methods of a class of vintage capital growth models",
(with O. Licandro and A. Magnus), Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control25, 255-269, 2001.
``Endogenous vs exogenously
driven fluctuations in vintage capital models", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 88,
161-187, 1999.
``Creative destruction,
investment volatility and the average age of capital", (with M.
Germain, O. Licandro and A. Magnus),
Journal of Economic
Growth 3, 361-384, 1998.
``Replacement echoes in the
vintage capital growth model", (with M. Germain and O. Licandro),
Journal of Economic Theory 74, 333-348, 1997.
``Differential-difference
equations in economics: On the numerical solution of vintage capital
growth models", (with O. Licandro and C. Paul), Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control 21, 347-362, 1997.
``Precision
performances of terminal conditions for short time horizon
forward-looking systems" (with M. Juillard and P. Malgrange), Computational
Economics
10, 169-186, 1997.
``Liquidity
constraints and time non separable preferences", (with J.
Adda), Recherches Economiques de Louvain 62,
377-402, 1996.
``Checking for
saddlepoint stability: An easy test" (with C. Le Van), Computational
Economics 9, 317-330, 1996.
``An alternative methodology
for solving nonlinear forward-looking models", Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 19, 711-734, 1995.
``Monte Carlo experiments for large scale
forward-looking economic models", in : Predictability and Nonlinear Modelling in
Natural Sciences and Economics, J. Grasman and G. Van Straten
(editors), 599-609, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht), 1994.
