The paper is aimed at stating if economic crisis observed during the period 2007-2009 will give rise to greater or reduced economic freedom. Seeking the answer to this question, Economic Freedom Index developed by Fraser Institute during the period 2007-2010 was subject to analysis. The research...

El papel de las universidades es proveer al aparato productivo de capital humano calificado para el desempeño de las actividades económicas, sin embargo, desde el punto de vista del perfil de formación profesional, no necesariamente los profesionistas se desempeñan en actividades para las...

Este trabajo aporta evidencia empírica para el caso mexicano, respecto de la segregación ocupacional porgénero en el mercado de trabajo de los egresados de educación superior; asimismo, presenta un seguimiento de la matrícula de nivel superior en México, a partir del cual se fundamenta,...

Inflation dynamics in advanced countries have produced two consecutive puzzles during the years after the global financial crisis. The first puzzle emerged when inflation rates over the period 2009-11 were consistently higher than expected, although economic slack in advanced countries reached...

L’objet de cet article est de proposer une lecture de l’évolution des faits et des idées économiques, dans la perspective de montrer que les vieilles idées resurgissent sous de nouveaux atours, au point d’en cacher les lacunes et de rendre les crises,non seulement, difficiles à...

The paper attempts an explanation of the alleged "lack of adequate economic models" to predict and eventually avoid - using certain policy recommendations - the recurrent financial and fiscal crises, and finally, economic crisis, recurrently registered in the world. From author opinion, in the...

Contemporary Kondratieff wave studies show two tendencies: one, a macroeconomic analysis that maps long trends of prosperity and depression with GDP data, but second, a sectoral approach that traces the influence of K-waves of basic innovations, and the rise of a succession of leading industrial...

The macroeconomic experiences of five South American nations —Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru— are examined since the 1990s. Common features in reforms and macroeconomic policies as well as common cyclical breaking points are stressed, which overcome some relevant differences...

This paper discusses the central macroeconomic claims that are made in Thomas Piketty's book 'Capital in the Twenty-first Century'. The paper aims to show that Piketty's contentions are not only logically flawed but also contradicted by his own data.

This working paper reconsiders and adds to empirical evidence on the effect of federal government debt and interest rates.