The paper investigates how changes in industries' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based on panel regressions using 31 U.S. and Canadian industries between 1991 and 2007, and using industries' dependence on external funding as an identification mechanism, we show that...

This paper studies stylized business cycle properties of household production in four industrialized countries (Canada, the United States, Germany, and Japan). We employ a dynamic small open economy business cycle model that incorporates a household production sector. We use the model to...

The present paper develops a one-sector aggregate endogenous growth model with intertemporal preference dependence. The resultant model possesses the fundamental property of growth convergence, in the sense that countries with identical parameters regarding technology, preference, and government...

In this paper we analyze how the availability of credit influences the relationship between government size as a proxy for fiscal stabilization policy and the amplitude of business cycle fluctuations in a sample of advanced OECD countries. Interpreting relatively low loan-tovalue ratios as an...

The paper provides the methodological background for the Czech Republic business cycle dating process using an alternative approach. This approach is based on the mathematical principle of identification of extremes using estimates of derivations of time trend of the analysed time series, for...

In this paper we analyze how the availability of credit in uences the relationship between government size as a proxy for scal stabilization policy and the amplitude of business cycle uctuations in a sample of advanced OECD countries. Interpreting relatively low loan-tovalue ratios as an...

Seit 1971 ist dem ifo Institut die Geschäftsstelle des Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys angegliedert. Alle zwei Jahre treffen sich CIRET-Mitglieder und andere Experten zur Diskussion neuer Forschungsergebnisse. Die umfangreiche Tagesordnung der 22. CIRET-Konferenz,...

Auf der Konferenz des Center for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys wurde eine Prognose der Entwicklung der USA, Japans und der europäischen Wirtschaft vorgelegt. - Ein Schwerpunkt der Vorträge und der Diskussion lag auf der Beobachtung der Wirtschaftsentwicklung im...

One of the leading figures of the Austrian School is by far Ludwig von Mises. Known better for his findings regarding the relationship between money, prices and interest, Mises brought originality and a new perspective over the monetary policy. This paper is a tribute to the philosopher Mises,...

This paper provides a framework for the analysis of firms' integration strategies that incorporates the endogenous determination of the number of firms that serve foreign markets through exports and the number of multinational firms that choose to engage in horizontal foreign direct investments....