In This Article, It Is Argued That the Long International, Financial and Economic Cycle (50-60 Years) Is More Than a Statistical Aberration, and Is the Result of Institutional Political, Financial and Economic Conditions Which Are Recurrent. It Is Proposed As an Hypothesis That the Breakdown of...

Des Elements Recents de Preuve Empirique Tires D'analyses de Vecteurs Autoregressifs Confirment L'importance des Changements Novateurs du Taux D'interet En Tant Que Determinant des Fluctuations Economiques. Nous Montrons Que Ce Resultat Peut Soutenir une Theorie du Cycle Economique Fondee Sur...

This paper documents and discusses a dramatic change in the cyclical behavior of aggregate hours worked by individuals with a college degree (skilled workers) since the mid-1980’s. Using the CPS outgoing rotation data set for the period 1979:1-2003:4, we find that the volatility of aggregate...

This Paper Reviews the Literature on the Compliance Costs Incurred by Businesses and Individuals Because of One Or More Taxes. It Presents Both the Main Characteristics, Such As Sample Size, Interview Techniques and So On, and the Key Findings of the Nineteen Studies Reviewed. in General, One...

We Present a Model of a Mineral Producing Sector Where Irreversible Investment in Capacity and the Presence of Orebodies Which Differ in Quality and Volume Help Explain Some Important Stylized Facts. in Particular We Find That, While Deposits Are Exhausted in Declining Order of Grade, More Than...

This Paper Show Monetary Policy Rules That Partially Accommodate Price Increases Can Worsen Both Price and Output Variability, Contrary to the Conventional Wisdom of Models with Staggered Contracts and Rational Expectations. This Phenomenon Is of Particular Interest Given Evidence From a Sample...