This paper analyses current policy choices facing the candidate countries for EU accession using newly developed econometric macromodels of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Estonia. The models allow for endogenous growth, and they have been incorporated into an existing global...

Manufacturing price markup equations are estimated for 15 OECD countries using annual data. Firms have CES production technology. The markup depends on demand, competitors' prices and uncertainty. Cointegration is tested with the Pedroni tests and a panel version of the Johansen test, and...

This paper uses a production function approach to put the recent contribution of the New Economy to US economic growth into perspective by undertaking an analysis of the sources of technical progress in the business sector over the post-war period. We model jointly a pair of factor demand...