In line with the EU strategy on smart and sustainable growth, there has been an increasing attention directed to Research and development activities in the Czech Republic. Gross expenditures on R&D have doubled between 2000 and 2008 and the private R&D sector remains the biggest contributor to...

This paper examines how globalisation has affected the transmission between changes in the policy rate and the term structure of interest rates. We …first estimate a cointegrated VAR model of the US daily term structure of interest rates. We then estimate the model using monthly data to allow...

Nickell and Layard (1999) conclude that "[t]here appear to be no differential tax effects on unemployment but there is evidence that overall labor tax rates do influence labor costs in the long run and hence raise unemployment." This paper asks whether this conclusion still holds, by approaching...

This paper introduces a Banking-Macro Model and estimates the linkages through a Multi-Regime VAR (MRVAR). We first introduce a dynamic model which is akin to the Brunnermeier and Sannikov (BS) model (2010). The banking sector borrows from capital markets, issues liabilities, accumulates assets,...

The use of renewable energy (RE) sour ces plays a significant role in increa sing the security of energy supply and mitigating climate change. Whereas this role is und isputed, there is an ongoing discussion about the employment impacts of promoting RE deployment. So far no common methodological...

The aim of this study is to assess to what extent the Portuguese participation in the European Monetary System has been characterized by mean reverting behaviour, as predicted by the exchange rate target zone model developed by Krugman (1991). Although exchange rate mean reversion is widely...

In this paper, we seek to examine the effect of comparisons and social capital on subjective well-being. We test if, through social influence and exposure, social capital is either an enhancer or appeaser of the comparison effect. Using the Latinobarómetro Survey (2007) we find that, the...

Value creation processes based on economic dynamics of contribution – also referred as crowdsourcing or web 2.0 - take more and more importance in contemporary capitalism (Moulier-Boutang 2010; Moulier-Boutang 2011a). This paper’s aim is twofold: 1) to contribute to a better understanding of the...

Energy productivity, defined as the ratio of GDP to energy used, is pervasively used as an indicator of energy efficiency at national level, although it is not an appropriate one. We point out that the traditional energy productivity could measure only the cost effectiveness of energy to achieve...

The objective of this study is to construct a 2-goods “tradable and non-tradable”, 4-factors, 13-industries, single-country general equilibrium model with references to the case- specific features of North Cyprus and explore the impact of external income shock on the economy as a whole. The...