Several countries around the world have adopted the inflation targeting regime for monetary policy. Despite the growing literature on the issue, it is not clear whether developing and emerging countries can improve their economic performance by adopting inflation targeting. This working paper...

An Englishman once watched his first American football game. He looked intently as the team gathered into a huddle after each play. His American host asked him what he thought of the proceedings. “Not a bad sport,” remarked the visitor, “but they do seem to engage in an excessive number of...

The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is largely neglected. Job-creation is often thought to be a matter of encouraging more employment on a given capital stock. In contrast, this paper explicitly deals with the long-run...

In this paper, we address the question of optimal wage and income dispersion in a growing economy. If already in the two-persons-case we have to deal with the fact of different marginal products of labor, there are two solutions in principle. Either two different wages are paid (at unanimous...

Im Vergleich zum EU-Durchschnitt und zu den Vereinigten Staaten hat Deutschland seit einigen Jahren eine höhere Arbeitslosenquote und niedrigere Wachstumsraten zu verzeichnen. Worauf ist diese Entwicklung zurückzuführen? Ist der gegenwärtige Aufschwung nachhaltig?

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Output und Beschäftigung im Konjunkturverlauf über eine Modifizierung des Okun'schen Gesetzes für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Kanada und die USA untersucht. Dabei wird sowohl auf Einzelschätzungen als...

Las causas de la explosión de desempleo y de la escasa creación de empleos ocurridas en la Argentina hasta 1995 y sus perspectivas futuras son los dos hilos conductores de este documento. Aquí se presenta una interpretación que se profundiza para el caso de la Argentina.

We consider three objects of people's status preference, consumption, physical capital holding and money holding, and show that an economy grows or stagnates depending on which object people most seriously take as status. If the main object of status preference is consumption, a steady state...