Graduate education in business administration was developed in the U.S. around the turn of the twentieth century. MBA … and similar graduate-level business programs took hold more slowly in other countries, but the number of such programs … expanded more rapidly from the 1960s onward. In an effort to determine what firms from these countries require from business …

&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poissonmodel of endogenous business cycles …

The paper documents the extent of similarities and differences of business cycle characteristics of the Asian countries … over time. Comovement and persistence properties of business cycles in the Asian countries are very similar to those of the … G-7 economies. The authors find that while the patterns of business cycle fluctuations in the main macroeconomic …

This paper provides evidence of the positive impact of economic integration on EU regions' business cycles convergence … by focusing on two neighbouring countries: Spain and Portugal. We show that while a rise in cross-country business cycle …

Many economics theories suggest that the assignment of workers to occupations changes over the business cycle …-skilled individuals. Furthermore, the skill composition of new hires changes over the business cycle, even within occupations. Consistent …

Extant estimates of the welfare cost of business cycles suggest that this cost is quite low and might well be minuscule … welfare gain from eliminating business cycles can exceed the gain from increasing the long-term growth rate by 1% forever … have consequences that vary by state. Our results have implications for several key issues in economics and finance …