A synthesis of the literature on the relations among monetary aggregates, financial development and economic growth is presented. While recent literature has been dominated by neoclassical thinking, the monetary framework that does not limit the channel of effect of policy factors on economic...

The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the great challenges that will characterize the XXI Century. In the background we consider the problem of the relationship between “Us” and the “Others”, that is how to reconcile the power of Western universalism with the multitudes of other...

Troika economics has brought Greece to a serious depression at a zero lower bound, with near unlimited supply of labor and near unlimited demand for money. In this paper, it is argued that these circumstances dictate to Greece the implementation individually of a long-term self-financing...

This paper looks for answers to the following questions: Why did one of the most prosperous republics of the former USSR suffer from both persistent and high inflation during the first four years of its young existence? Flow could the Ukrainians efficiently put an end to the skyrocketing of...

The finite horizon neoclassical theory predicts that for a given path of government spending, an increase in the budget deficit will worsen the foreign trade balance. In contrast, the Ricardian view suggests that the higher budget deficit is met by an equal increase in the desired private...

The fiscal contraction undertaken in Ireland in the late 80’s has received attention in the literature since it was followed by an expansion of aggregate demand and production. This has been considered an effect of the expectations of a lower future tax burden, which boosted private...

This study investigates whether or not UK industrial production is characterised by a nonlinear response to monetary shocks. Our methodology is based on logistic smooth transition vector autoregression modelling where we employ monthly data for the period January 1960 to August 1999. We find...

Since 1990, the European Union (EU) is New Zealand’s second biggest trading partner after Australia. New Zealand’s exports to the EU are mainly in agricultural products, such as sheep-meat, butter, venison, kiwifruit, apples, wools, hides and skins. New Zealand, on the other hand, imports...

This paper studies the features of political cycles in a setting of international interdependence caused by inflation linkages. The main results are the following. Political cycles caused by domestic elections are larger than without international linkages. Political cycles caused by domestic...

This article extends the IS-MP-IA model (Romer, 2000) and applies the GARCH process (Engle, 1982, 2001) to study output variations in Slovenia. Equilibrium GDP in Slovenia is found to have a positive relationship with real depreciation and the world output and a negative relationship with the...