An economy's production set is the collection of all net output vectors that the economy is capable of producing with a given technology and fixed quantities of primary factors of production. The boundary of this set is called the production possibility frontier or PPF. We show that, if the...

An economy's production set is the collection of all net output vectors that the economy is capable of producing with a given technology and fixed quantities of primary factors of production. The boundary of this set is called the production possibility frontier or PPF. We show that, if the...

Since the beginning of transition in 1990 from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy, the performance of Poland's economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this performance but the radical ("big bang") reforms at the...

Since the beginning of transition in 1990 from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy, the performance of Poland’s economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this performance but the radical (“big bang”) reforms...

Since the beginning of transition in 1990 from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy, the performance of Poland's economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. In our opinion it is not specific reforms that can explain this performance but the radical ("big bang")...

In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human...

Im Rahmen des Ökonomenpanels von ifo und FAZ werden seit Februar 2016 Professoren der Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten zur gegenwärtigen Wirtschaftspolitik befragt. Ein Schwerpunktthema in der ersten Runde war die Asyl- und Zuwanderungspolitik.

In der zweiten Umfrage des Ökonomenpanels stand die mögliche Beschränkung von Bargeldzahlungen im Mittelpunkt. Eine Mehrheit der Umfrageteilnehmer spricht sich gegen eine Einschränkung von Bargeldzahlungen aus.