This paper deals with the growth literature. In particular, we are fundamentally concerning the recent empirical studies. For this purpose, we mainly base our study on a recent paper called The New Growth Evidence by J. Temple (2000) who gives a very detailed discussion of the empirical issues...

This paper addresses arguments that a system of fiscal insurance between member states of the European Union is needed to act in replacement of nominal exchange rate flexibility as an automatic stabilizer under monetary union. Many authors have argued or assumed that asymmetric real...

The problem is to evaluate the likelihood that a country will face a currency or balance of payments crisis over a given horizon. When is it rational for market participants to expect a depreciation of the currency? On the basis of considerable empirical studies we know that in both banking and...