This paper examines the effect of economic integration on the product-level consumption patterns across the OECD in the past decade. Estimation results find evidence of strong convergence in cross-country consumption patterns with substantial heterogeneity across products and countries. The...

Tanulmányunkban egy rugalmas árazású, kétszektoros nominális növekedési modellt építünk fel, amelyet a fokozatos tőkefelhalmozás melletti felzárkózás tanulmányozására használunk. Egy klasszikus kis, nyitott gazdaságot tekintünk, a külfölddel versenyző és nem versenyző...

A közelmúltban számos vitát hallhattunk arról, hogy a kormányzatnak milyen mértékben és milyen eszközökkel kell támogatnia az iskoláztatást. A cikkben olyan közgazdasági modellt mutat be a szerző, amely segítséget nyújthat a vita eldöntéséhez. A modell családi keretbe...

Christopher D. Carroll is an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore and research associate at NBER. He obtained his BA from Harvard University in 1986 and his PhD from MIT in 1990. He first worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and later took a job at Johns...

This article develops a model that examines the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. Cultural differences lead to frictions between natives and immigrants unless the latter make a costly investment to assimilate. This article’s key contribution is the joint analysis...

The paper interprets the growth and convergence experience of three Central-Eastern European economies (the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland) through the lens of the stochastic neoclassical growth model. It adapts the methodology of Business Cycle Accounting (Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan 2007)...

Harald Uhlig is Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago since 2007 and chairman of that department since July 2009, after having taught at Princeton, Tilburg University and the Humboldt Universität Berlin. His research interests are in macroeconomics, financial...