How to provide for full employment and equitable distribution of incomes and wealth are the keenest issues of the U.S. society. The Democratic and the Republican Parties have elaborated opposing views on economic policy, though both parties are certain that the problems may be resolved through...

This paper explores the effect of policy variability (or frequency of regime switching) on economic growth and welfare. We study a one sector growth model where investment can be subsidized at either a positive rate or not subsidized at all.

The paper tries to build a framework of the interconnections between income distribution and accumulation for the years after 1980. On the basis of this framework it is argued that it was primarily the weakening of the inducements to invest that improved the attractiveness of financial...

Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to...

This paper studies optimal taxation in a general equilibrium macro model with endogenous entry. We compare the constant elasticity of substitution (CES) model to three alternative demand structures: oligopolistic competition in prices, oligopolistic competition in quantities, and translog...

This paper examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty and its components on firm-level investment. It is found that economic policy uncertainty in interaction with firm-level uncertainty depresses firms’ investment decisions. When firms are in doubt about costs of doing business due to...

We develop an empirical model allowing for the identification of four different resource mobilization climates describing the period between 1986 and 2002. Those climates are based on different constellations of gross capital formation and domestic savings rates: super investor (high savings,...

A szerző - a nyugati közgazdasági irodalomhoz hasonlóan - szorosan a holtteher- veszteség kategóriájával egybekapcsolva vizsgálja a gazdasági hatékonyságot, kitérve a többi hatékonysági tényezőre. Alaposan csak az adóztatás által okozott holtteher-veszteséget elemzi. E...