Introduction: Time and Economic Policy -- Intertemporal Choices, Information, and Opportunity Sets: The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy -- Thinking Outside the Box: Giancarlo Marini, A Rigorous Eclectic Economist -- Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Debt Dynamics: (Re-)Assessing the Intertemporal...

This paper investigates recent developments in meta-analysis, the tool to quantitatively synthesize research in a certain body of literature. After providing a brief overview on how to do a meta-analysis and discussing recent methodological advancements in the field, I review applied...

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of the Fourth Edition -- Chapter 2. National Income Accounts -- Chapter 3. Budget Deficits, Trade Deficits and Global Capital Flows: The National Savings Identity -- Chapter 4. Aggregate Demand: Setting the Stage for Demand-Side Stabilization -- Chapter 5....

The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines contain the answers of the European Commission and the governments of the EU-member countries to the European growth and employment problems. These guidelines have been the major EU-economic policy concept for around ten years now. They can be seen as a...