Die in der Republik Belarus vor allem auf Betreiben von Präsident Lukaschenko verfolgte Wirtschaftspolitik wird seit Jahren von praktisch allen Beobachtern wegen unverkennbarer Rückschritte zu planwirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen negativ eingeschätzt. Die Kritik kommt von so verschiedenen...

The 1990s were the most prosperous decade in U.S. economic history. The paper analyses to which extent this period fits into preceding cyclical experience. This is done by classifying the period 1991-12 to 2000-12 with the help of a 4-phase classification scheme based on multivariate...

The Bank of Canada Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM) is used to examine the effect of various types of discretionary fiscal policies on different regions of the globe. The BoC-GEM is a microfounded dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium global model with six regions, multiple sectors, and...