In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political participation, the SIGI allows a new perspective on gender...

We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We use a simple approach, which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows to compare the...

This paper makes the following contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables and endogenous regressors to estimate the effect of trade on income for 75 developed and developing...

Though checks' popularity is now waning in favor of electronic payments, checks were, for much of the twentieth century, the most widely used noncash payment method in the United States. How did such a relatively inefficient form of payment become so dominant? This article traces the historical...

Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie Außenhandel zu Wirtschaftswachstum führen kann. Da anhaltendes Wirtschaftswachstum nur durch technischen Fortschritt möglich ist, muss Außenhandel deshalb auf die Rate des technischen Fortschritts wirken um Wirtschaftswachstum beeinflussen zu können....

The assumption that national labor markets are homogenous across tradable and non-tradable goods is common in multisector (open-economy) macro models and crucial for the prominent Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis. This study tests it with a novel method to distinguish the tradable and non-tradable...

Im Mittelpunkt der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft steht die individuelle Freiheit der Gesellschaftsmitglieder. Die Verwirklichung individueller Ziele kann über die in der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft bestehende Wettbewerbsordnung erreicht werden, weil auf dem Markt freiwilligen Tauschhandlungen vollzogen...

Im Rahmen der Beitragssysteme der Europäischen Freihandelszone (EFTA) und des Europäischen Währungsraums (EWR) wird die relative Leistungsfähigkeit eines Mitgliedslandes nach Massgabe des nationalen Bruttoinlandprodukts (BIP) festgelegt. Ca. 59% der Beitragszahlungen, die das Fürstentum...