A crucial issue in the era of globalisation and internationalization, is whether the relationship between investment and finance is beneficial to growth and development. Received wisdom is that Research and Development is essential not only for maintaining productivity, but also for competing in...

Edmund S. Phelps ist ein einflussreicher Makroökonom. Ihm sind bahnbrechende Einsichten bei der mikroökonomischen Modellierung nicht-walrasianischer Erwartungsgleichgewichte gelungen. Seine Analyse von Anreizlöhnen und unfreiwilliger Arbeitslosigkeit mündet in die Vorstellung einer...

This paper examines the consequences of capital and labour subsidies for employment, capital formation and other macroeconomic variables within an OLG small open economy model of wealth accumulation. Two cases, the neoclassical-equilibrium one and the modern-equilibrium one, have been analysed....

This paper introduces the age structure of the population into the analysis of medium term unemployment swings. We incorporate age-related features into the Shapiro-Stiglitz shirking model and find that the observed age pattern of unemployment can be explained in terms of the model. Moreover, we...

Biographical note: Roman Frydman is professor of economics at New York University and the coauthor (with Michael D. Goldberg) of "Beyond Mechanical Markets" and "Imperfect Knowledge Economics". Edmund S. Phelps, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is director of Columbia...