This paper presents the main issues involved in estimating potential output. The objective is to describe the alternative methods and analyze their application and implications for growth forecasts and macroeconomic policy in Brazil. The text emphasizes the determinants of potential output under...

This research develops an expanded unified growth theory that incorporates the endogenous accumulation of physical capital, population, human capital, and technology. The model incorporates a complementarity between physical capital and human capital and can be extended to a multi-country...

We analyze the cross-national distribution of GDP per capita and its evolutionfrom 1970 to 2003. We argue that peaks are not a suitable measure for distinctgrowth regimes, because the number of peaks is not invariant under strictlymonotonic transformations of the data (e.g. original vs. log...

Our purpose here is to challenge the big-bang approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency to...

This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The...

The state owned enterprises were crucial in the early stage of industrial development in Turkey. They were producer of basic consumption goods and contributed the building the entrepreneurial understanding, and hence the development of the private sector. State owned enterprises have played key...

Das Discussion Paper beinhaltet Erkenntnisse zur Besteuerung russischer Agrar-Holdings in Russland. Eingangs werden ausgehend von der deutschen Rechtslage die Begriffe Holding, Agrar-Holding und Agrar-Industrie-Holding definiert. Nachfolgend werden Elemente der Steuerplanung durch die russischen...

Dieser Forschungsbericht beinhaltet die Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung von 200 Familienbetrieben im Osten Georgiens im Distrikt Sighnagi in der Kakheti-Region Ende 2001/Anfang 2002. Sie dienten dem Ziel, Erkenntnisse über die wirtschaftliche Situation georgischer Familienbetriebe sowie zum Teil...

В дискуссионном материале № 34 представляются ресультаты анкетирования по вопросам собственности и рентабельности в 100 крупных сельскохозяйственных пред-...

Im vorliegenden Discussion Paper 32 werden Untersuchungsergebnisse zu den Eigentumsverhältnissen und zur Rentabilität in 100 russischen Großbetrieben vorgelegt, die im Jahre 2000 mittels Befragungen im Gebiet Wolgograd gewonnen worden sind. Sie ordnen sich in die Forschungsarbeiten zur...