Many of the EU accession countries have announced that they will not only try to enter the EU as quickly as possible but also to adopt the euro at an early date. This is justified by the effort to avoid the danger of financial instability in the period prior to euro-introduction. However, by...

South Africa appears to share some of the characteristics (property price boom, easing of monetary policy, strong domestic demand growth) of asset price booms in industrial countries that were often followed by a period of weak growth. The international experience suggests that a number of...

Different goods are produced by different sectors in an economy. The fact that sectors use different production technologies is named technology-bias. The technology-bias is well documented and has important theoretical implications for economic growth and unemployment. We provide a theoretical...

Recent literature studies structural change and aggregate dynamics in neoclassical multi-sector growth models. A central aspect of this literature is the explanation of Kaldor-Kuznets-stylized-facts , which state that massive structural change takes place while aggregate-dynamics are relatively...

Over the last decade, a growing body of literature dealing with the phenomenon of the "middle-income trap" (MIT) has emerged. The term MIT usually refers to countries that have experienced rapid growth and thus reached the status of a middle-income country (MIC) in a very short period of time,...

This paper applies the statistical concepts of σ-convergence and unconditional β-convergence to institutional development within several country groups hierarchized to the degree of European integration (e.g., euro area). Two sets of indicators are employed to measure institutional...

This paper applies the statistical concepts of σ-convergence and unconditional β-convergence to institutional development within several country groups hierarchized to the degree of European integration (e.g., euro area). Two sets of indicators are employed to measure institutional...

Soll die Bundesbank eine nominelle BSP-Regelpolitik betreiben? Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit einem Vorschlag, der in den letzten Jahren international große Beachtung gefunden hat. Nach diesem Vorschlag soll ein nominelles Bruttosozialprodukt (BSP) oder seine Wachstumsrate als Zielgröße...

Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Mengen- und Preisänderungen Betrachtungen zu einer auffallenden Trade-off-Beziehung Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Erscheinung einer negativen Korrelation zwischen Output- und Preisniveauwachstum, empirisch festgemacht am Beispiel der USA während der...