Like the other small economies of Central America, the economy of Honduras is a challenge for all those searching for an adequate and sustainable growth strategy. After growing strongly for the two decades prior to 1980, the economy suffered through more than 20 years of growth so slow that only...

We analyze the role of government intertemporal budget policies in a growing open economy including nominal assets in the presence of an upward sloping supply of debt. This introduces transitional dynamics that influence the effects of government policy instruments on the long term fiscal...

We revisit the diagram developed by Krugman and Macedo (The economic consequences of the April 25th revolution, Krugman and Braga de Macedo, Economia III:435-483, 1979) to study the adjustment path of output and real wage gaps in a small open economy. Using time series data, we estimate...

This study describes a compact dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model fitted for the Swiss economy with Bayesian techniques. The model features two economies (small home economy, large foreign economy), five types of agents (households, producers of tradables, producers of...