The key policy challenge for Turkey in the years ahead will be to enhance and consolidate the advances made since the nation’s 2000-01 economic crisis. Higher growth could reduce unemployment and raise living standards toward European Union levels. This paper reviews Turkey’s...

The transition to a market economy has been analyzed primarily from a stabilization prospective. To complement that approach, we focus on a pure relative price shock and subsequent price adjustments. A model of monopolistic competition with costly labor adjustment indicates that relative price...

Spain's participation in European integration has strengthened its policymaking credibility and created an enviroment conducive to sustainable economic growth. Over the last decade, Spain has seen improvements in inflation, output, employment, and its balance of payments, and it has...

This note assesses the relative efficiency of different tax bases in an open economy. If terms of trade effects are large, lump-sum taxation may be inferior to distortionary consumption or wage taxes. This result is demonstrated analytically using a simple neoclassical model. An overlapping...

This paper examines the implications of European fiscal harmonization for the French economy using a general equilibrium model. The latter extends the overlapping generations simulation model of Auerbach and Kotlikoff in three ways. A well-developed external sector is included. Households face...

[spa] Las políticas de distributión de dividendos en el periodo 1982-1986, . por Michel Bua, Philippe Girard, Thierry Pujol y Philippe Redondo.. . Si bien parece ser estable a nivel macroeconómico, la distribución de dividendos difiere notablemente en función de las firmas. El análisis de...

[fre] Le processus dominant d’allocation d’actifs, fondé sur le triptyque allocation stratégique rigide, allocation tactique mobile et benchmarking des performances tactiques, a conduit la plupart des investisseurs à être surexposés aux actions, au pic du marché en 1999-2000. Cet...