This paper provides a historical overview of comparative political economy as an interdisciplinary field of study anchored in political science and focused on advanced capitalist states. We argue that this field of inquiry has reached an impasse and that a more sustained engagement with...

The potential accession of Turkey to the EU, and the related adoption of the CAP by Turkey,is expected to influence agricultural markets in both the EU and Turkey. The extent of theaccession impacts depends on the one hand on the way the CAP will be implemented inTurkey, while on the other hand...

Die vorliegende Dissertation zu makroökonomischen Themen beinhaltet einen einleitenden Literaturüberblick, drei eigenständige und voneinander unabhängige Kapitel sowie einen technischen Anhang. In Kapitel zwei wird ein Zwei-Länder Modell einer Währungsunion betrachtet, in dem die...

This work contains three papers employing common factor methodologies to economic forecasting for Estonia. The methods employed are State-space modelling with Kalman filtering, static principal components and dynamic principal components. The last paper also investigates Inflation dynamics and...

We propose the relaxation algorithm as a simple and powerful method for simulating the transition process in growth models. This method has a number of important advantages: First, it can easily deal with a wide range of dynamic systems including stiff differential equations and systems giving...

This book contributes to the literature on the determinants of macro volatility. It starts with a theoretical examination using a stochastic model of endogenous growth and fluctuations. In this setup, an analytical measure of macro volatility based on cyclical components is derived. The measure...

The concept of trade openness is broadly applied as a potential predictor in numerous empirical studies, despite the fact that no commonly accepted approach of measuring openness has been developed. The most widely applied (‘traditional’) openness indices are not able to accurately calculate...

Financial market developments have become increasingly important to the overall economic development in virtually all countries in the world over the past three decades or so. The arti-cles collected in this Thesis constitute an attempt to explore this ‘financialisation hypothesis’ from a...