Castro and Coen-Pirani (2008) document that aggregate skilled hours and employment both became more volatile after the mid-1980s, in contrast to the simultaneous volatility decline of most aggregates, including overall hours and employment and unskilled hours and employment. In chapter 1, I...

My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment over the business cycle. I am interestedin understanding the "over-qualification" of workers that occurs during periods of high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor...

Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist die These, dass der unternehmerische Mittelstand durch Veränderungen des Wettbewerbsumfelds und durch steigende Wettbewerbsintensität in deutlich stärkerem Maße zu strategischen und in der Folge strukturellen Anpassungen gezwungen sein wird. Die Betrachtung...

Präsentationen zu <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus-3379">Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise mit Blick auf Marx und Keynes – Teil I</a>. Stefan Voß über Hyman P. Minsky, Alfred Müller über Karl Marx.

This paper reviews stylised facts on the Asian growth miracle generated using the growth accounting framework. It reviews rival models that purport to explain an economic crisis in terms of deteriorating macroeconomic fundamentals, time-inconsistent policies and rational self-fulfilling panic...

This paper studies the process that led to the Argentine crisis. The crisis is understood as a major disappointment of previous expectations, indicated by widespread insolvencies and abrupt declines in consumption. The analysis concentrates on the sequence of public and private decisions, and...