This paper challenges the institutional sclerosis view of the German crisis according to which rigid labour markets and generous welfare state institutions have driven Germany into its position as "Europe's sick man". In general, the view is not convincing, because the underlying hypotheses...

This paper assesses the transmission of fiscal policy shocks in a New Keynesian framework where government expenditures contribute to aggregate production. It is shown that even if the impact of government expenditures on production is small, this assumption helps to reconcile the models'...

We study the consequences of non-neutrality of government debt for macroeconomic stabilization policy in an environment where prices are sticky. Assuming transaction services of government bonds, Ricardian equivalence fails because public debt has a negative impact on its marginal rate of return...

This paper was prepared for the 1998 IDB/IIC Annual Meeting entitled: The Employment in Latin America: What is the Problem and Should it be Addressed? held in Cartagena, Colombia in March 1998. Despite macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms, employment problems have persisted in...

Im Zuge der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise haben viele Staaten Konjunkturpakete verabschiedet, die auch umweltpolitische Ziele verfolgen sollen. Daraus resultierende Zielkonflikte können die Wirkung der Maßnahmen deutlich schmälern. Die deutsche Umweltindustrie kann von den internationalen...

This paper studies whether policymakers should wait to intervene until a financial crisis strikes or rather act in a preemptive manner. This question is examined in a relatively simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which crises are endogenous events induced by the presence of...

This paper studies an agent-based model that bridges Keynesian theories of demandgeneration and Schumpeterian theories of technology-fueled economic growth. We employ the model to investigate the properties of macroeconomic dynamics and the impact of public polices on supply, demand and the...

Dieses Diskussionspapier ist als "Versuch" anzusehen, über einige Grundlagen unserer Wissenschaft zu schreiben, um bei der derzeitigen Konfrontation mit deprimierenden wirtschaftlichen Fakten und Perspektiven die fatale Wirkung von Begrifflichkeiten aufzuzeigen, die - unscharf bedacht - die...