Luca Pensieroso U.C. Louvain   Place Montesquieu 3 Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348 Belgium   luca.pensieroso@uclouvain.be   http://perso.uclouvain.be/luca.pensieroso           JEL Areas: E : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics O : Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth