The purpose of the article is to determine the link between investing in human cap- ital and the formation of the creative economy. Given that human capital is consid- ered both a factor in the socio-economic development of countries and a prerequisite for the formation of the creative economy...

We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with occupation mobility, human capital accumulation and endogenous assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological innovations. We extend recent quantitative general...

This paper evaluates the raw material dependence of two export-oriented oil and gas extracting countries. We find evidence of presence of the Dutch disease in both countries and of the resource curse in Russia. Reduction of volumes of crude oil and natural gas production and exports, compensated...