The financial and economic crisis brings to a reconsideration of macroeconomics: as it happened in the past, after the Great Crash of 1929 as well as after the Second World War and after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the subsequent oil crisis. A brief critical survey of...

In this paper, we estimate the speed of adjustment for firm level data. We introduce an extrinsic limitation to the model to test the impact on rate of adjustment. We find that extrinsic limitations have a significant impact on speed of adjustment

The 1980s were both the lost decade of growth for much of Latin America and Africa, and the period in which -- through the new growth theory -- macroeconomists returned to the study of growth and development. The new growth theory is production function driven and concerned primarily with steady...

This paper tries to clarify some important aspects around the zero-growth discussion. Starting from an accounting perspective, we analyse the implications of zero growth and clarify the stability conditions of such an economy. This is complemented with a monetary circuit approach - which, like...

The 1980s were both the lost decade of growth for much of Latin America and Africa, and the period in which -- through the new growth theory -- macroeconomists returned to the study of growth and development. The new growth theory is production function driven and concerned primarily with steady...

Economic development of a state can be well defined as quantitative alterations in macroeconomic variables, which upsurge the overall production or yield over a certain period, equated to the preceding period. Amongst many some principal macroeconomic aspects that donate towards the progression...

Following a prolonged period of economic decline and stagnation, Hungary's GDP growth accelerated to 3.7% in 2014 and was close to 3% in 2015. The reasons for the country's economic performance over the last six years are only partly related to the economic policies pursued since 2010....

This paper reviews the recent economic policies in Brazil and their impacts on the poor, and examines macro policies required to allow for poverty reduction. We first present the economic policies of the following periods and their impacts on growth and on the poor: 1980-1989, 1990-2002, and...