We analyse the relationship between functional income distribution and economic growth in France and Germany from 1960 until 2005. The analysis is based on a demand-driven distribution and growth model for an open economy inspired by Bhaduri & Marglin (1990), which allows for profit- or wage-led...

Since the early 1990s, the Scandinavian countries have recovered from one of the most severe crises of any Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country ever, returning to a 'high road' growth path and also succeeding in terms of macroeconomic stabilisation indicators. To...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the sensitivity of the natural rate of growth to the actual rate of growth for a sample of 11 Latin-American countries, assuming the natural rate to be determined endogenously by changes in the actual rate of growth. The natural rates of growth are estimated...

In dem Report werden die möglichen mittel- bis langfristigen Investitions- und Wachstumswirkungen der strukturellen Veränderungen des deutschen Finanzsystems, ausgehend von einer Reihe von Gesetzesreformen seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre, untersucht. Ein Vergleich mit den USA zeigt dabei, dass...