Seit der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise haben sich Bruttoinlandsprodukt und Beschäftigung in Deutschland aufwärts bewegt. Worauf basiert diese Robustheit? Michael Hüther sieht die deutsche Wettbewerbsfähigkeit nicht durch einen zu niedrigen Euro-Kurs bedingt. Vielmehr identifiziert er...

This paper examines several mainstream explanations of the financial crisis and stagnation and the role they attribute to income inequality. Those explanations are contrasted with a structural Keynesian explanation. The role of income inequality differs substantially, giving rise to different...

This paper applies a robust empirical methodology, which considers issues relating to cross-country heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence, to inspect the contributions of gender equality and factor income distribution to an economy's growth path. A dynamic model of aggregate demand is...

This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political science research indicates that economic turmoil is responsible for causing or facilitating many democratic transitions, the paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a...

This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political science research indicates that economic turmoil is responsible for causing or facilitating many democratic transitions, the paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a...

This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political science research indicates that economic turmoil is responsible for causing or facilitating many democratic transitions, the paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a...

Spanish Abstract: Este escrito examina algunas explicaciones convencionales de la crisis financiera y el estancamiento, y el papel que atribuyen a la desigualdad del ingreso, en contraste con una explicación keynesiana estructural. El papel de la desigualdad del ingreso difiere esencialmente y...

The current economic condition of the world economies presents an unusual number of aspects. While inflation is low as is unemployment, wage stagnation and wild increases in asset prices, especially equities, are incongruent. Yet central banks have massively increased liquidity and this has...

This paper investigates the effect of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy on employment via a bank lending channel. We find that banks with higher mortgage-backed securities holdings issued relatively more loans after the first and third rounds of quantitative easing (QE1 and...

This paper applies a robust empirical methodology, which considers issues relating to cross-country heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence, to inspect the contributions of gender equality and factor income distribution to an economy's growth path. A dynamic model of aggregate demand is...