Sixteen countries across the world ¡ª including the United States and many European nations ¡ª have fallen into economic crises since the late 1990s. In <em>The Limits of Fiscal, Monetary, and Trade Policies: International Comparisons and Solutions</em>, Jonathan E Leightner convincingly argues that...

This paper analyzes the theoretical and quantitative implications of optimal capital taxation in the neoclassical growth model with aggregate shocks and incomplete markets. The model features a representative-agent economy with proportional taxes on labor and capital. I first consider the case...

Japan experienced a boom-and-bust cycle in the real estate and stock markets almost 20 years earlier than Europe. Since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy, the country has fallen into a deep recession and has experimented with crisis therapies in the form of unconventional monetary...

Depuis 2003, la Turquie a entrepris de restaurer ses fondamentaux macro-économique en mettant en place, sous la houlette du FMI, un programme de lutte contre l’inflation, tendon d’Achille traditionnel du pays et une politique budgétaire d’austérité, caractérisée par le dégagement de...

The financial and banking crisis in France, as in all industrialized countries, has had a considerable impact on the activity and evolution of public finances. If the lack of activity accumulated since the beginning of the crisis is expected to take over the next decade, the level of public debt...

Japan wurde durch die Naturkatastrophe am 11. März 2011 in eine erneute Rezession gerissen. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist im ersten Quartal 2011 auf Jahresbasis hochgerechnet um 3,5 Prozent eingebrochen. Zwar werden die Folgen des Erdbebens und Tsunamis sowie der anschließenden...