We applied a battery of cointegration tests comprising those of Johansen and Juselius [19], Phillips and Hansen [35], and Engle and Granger [6], to model aggregate health care expenditure using 1960–96 US data. The existence of a stable long-run economic relationship or cointegration is...

In this paper the author attempts an analysis of the current financial/economic crisis that is wider ranging and more fundamental than he has been able to find. He discusses alternatives to the financial bailouts and shows how the crisis could have been dealt with more efficiently and at little...

Die Internationale Schuldenkrise ist nicht nur ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches, sondern auch ein sozialethisches Thema, das insbesondere von der Kampagne "Erlassjahr 2000" in den letzten Jahren wieder in das Blickfeld des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt wurde. Zentrale Forderungen der...

The history of debt relief goes back several decades. It reveals that a country's accumulation of unsustainable debt stems from such factors as deficiencies in macroeconomic management, adverse terms-of-trade shocks, and poor governance. Debt-relief initiatives have provided debt-burdened...