Economists have long been interested in searching for the causes and effects of the growth of income and wealth of countries. The relevant literature gradually was divided nto two banches: economic growth and development economics, with the former emphasizing the use of rigorous mathematical...

The class of growth models that incorporate nonrivalry and/or externalities implies that the size (scale) of an economy influences its growth rate. Ample empirical evidence exists to suggest that such implied scale effects are counter-factual. The objective of this paper is to develop a general...

The present paper raises and analyzes two new issues that so far have received vey little attention in the literature. The first one is the relation between economic growth and internation laboe market. The second is how workers choose the limiting and lenght of emigration.

An important implication of "new growth" models is taht they exhibit "scale effects", meaning that variations in the levels of key variables such as the investment rate, research effort, and policy variables (tax rates) exert permanent influences on national growth rates.

In this paper we use the insights of the stochastic general equilibrium growth model to help understand the effects of risk on the real, risk adjusted return to capital, capital flows, exchange rate policy, and economic growth in two Pacific Basin economies, Mexico and Indonesia, over the period...

More than thirty years ago Milton Friedman proposed a 'plucking' model of business fluctuations in which output cannot exceed a ceiling level, but will, from time to time, be plucked downward by recession. The model implied that business fluctuations are asymmetric, that recessions have only a...

Optimal tax and monetary policies in a stochastic monetary growth model are investigated. Our findings are of three general types. First, both capital income taxes and monetary growth are shown to influence the economy through effective risk adjusted measures, expressed as a linear function of...