Optimal growth theory is sometices used to motivate green accounting by interpreting the "linearized" Hamiltonian at the present time as a proxy for an inclusive measure of NPP. A linearized Hamiltonian, is, in effect, an affine transformation of the utility function that makes consumption be...

Reform of the welfare sector is on agenda in Hungary, as it is in other post-socialist countries. Debate is taking place on the financing of the pension system, health care and higher education, on transformation of the social insurance system, and on the role of the welfare state.

After a quarter of a century of floating among the major currencies, exchange rate policy is still source of vexation, and the appropriate choice is by no means clear. Should a country allow its currency to float, subject perhaps to exchange market interventionl from time to time? Or should it...

We argue that allowing for the possibility of a self-fulfilling panic helps understand several features of the recent Mexican Crisis. We present a simple model too explain how and why multiple equilibria can occur for some levels of reserves or debt, but not for others.

Interest rate expectations are essential to exchange rate determination. Using a unique survey data set on interest rates forecasts from 1986 to 1995 for G7 countries, we find that there were more persistent interest rate shocks in sample than there were expected by the market.