Money illusion is "frequently invoked and frequently resisted" by economists. Resisted as it contradicts the maximizing paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the behavior of agents. This paper rationalizes...

Money illusion is frequently invoked and frequently resisted by economists. Resisted as it contradicts the maximizing paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the behavior of agents. This paper rationalizes money...

Money illusion is frequently invoked and frequently resisted by economists. Resisted as it contradicts the maximizing paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the behavior of agents. This paper rationalizes money...

Money illusion is "frequently invoked and frequently resisted" by economists. Resisted as it contradicts the maximizing paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the behavior of agents. This paper rationalizes...

Die Berechnung des Produktionspotentials nach der Kommissionsmethodea beruht auf einer Cobb-Douglas-Produktionsfunktion mit den Produktionsfaktoren Arbeit und Kapital, wobei abnehmende partielle Grenzproduktivitäten unterstellt werden. Die dritte Komponente der Cobb-Douglas-Produktionsfunktion...

In jüngster Zeit ist deutlich geworden, dass Griechenland trotz der Finanzhilfen durch den IWF und die EU seinen finanziellen Verpflichtungen nur schwer nachkommen kann. Außerdem wird bezweifelt, dass die griechische Regierung die ausgehandelten Auflagen vollständig erfüllt, sodass...

Im Verlauf der vergangenen Jahre sind die Nettokapitalimporte der Schwellenländer stark gestiegen. Dabei sind die Zuflüsse sowohl struktureller als auch zyklischer Natur. Strukturell haben sich die makroökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen mit inzwischen zumeist solide Staatsfinanzen, hohen...

In this paper we emphasize the role of institutions in economic analysis. We describe and compare different institutional classifications systems, which is rarely done in the literature, and show how to operationalize institutional classification based on the subject category, as the most...

We find evidences of significant volatility co-movements and/ or spillover from different financial markets to forex market for Indian economy. Among a large number of variables examined, volatility spillovers from stock market, government securities market, overnight index swap, Ted spread and...

In this paper we analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of an increase in income inequality on the current account balance. We develop a model with consumption externalities and heterogeneous agents which explains how an increase in income inequality can affect negatively or positively...