Correctly measuring a country’s national income and its growth is essential to the understanding of various aspects of the country’s economy both at present and in the future. The measurement issue is even more important for economies like China whose size-based economic-political power is...

Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the integrational properties of real GDP for 125 countries. Design/methodology/approach - The paper applies the Kwiatkowski et al. univariate test and a KPSS-type univariate test that accounts for multiple structural breaks -a test procedure proposed by...

This study aimed at establishing simple stylized facts on relationships between the share of agriculture and its subsectors in GDP and GDP per capita in Uganda. The study utilized both trend and regression analysis tools to achieve the study objective. Previous studies give evidence on what has...

In this paper we intend to discuss the relationship between long term development trajectories, which in principle can be expected to affect the functioning of all economic systems, and the deviations which can be expected to occur at a local level in particular countries or regions. We will...

Die Arbeit setzt sich mit Unterschieden des geldpolitischen Transmissionsprozesses im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland auseinander. Dazu wird der Sektor nach der Systematik der BACH-Datenbank der europäischen Kommission in 10 Branchen eingeteilt. An eine kurze Betrachtung...

In this paper we derive a set of conditions that is both necessary and sufficient for the consistency of QALY based decision making with life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. Cost benefit analysis is always consistent with life-cycle preferences over consumption and health...