The article examines public finance developments and its medium and long term prospects in the new member States of the European Union. Budget deficits have mostly a structural nature and require timely policy interventions, particularly in the area of social security spending. National economic...

Italian Abstract: Il possibile nesso tra crisi economiche e quello che Marx e Hilferding chiamavano "centralizzazione" del capitale è uno dei temi sollevati dalla "grande recessione". L'articolo esamina i principali studi dedicati a tale nesso, confrontando la letteratura economica marxista e...

Standard theoretical model cannot generate positive and large real bond risk premium under power utility preferences. Following recent developments in equity premium literature we explore bond premium in a long run risk environment with generalized isoleastic preferences. This approach explains...

Real interest rates, long run risks and business cycles. Standard theoretical model under power utility preferences generates time series for real yields and output that are not consistent with the cyclical properties of the macroeconomic data. In particular real interest rates of the model are...