The dynamic multi-country model developed in this paper focuses on the interaction between education, international trade and economic growth. The model distinguishes between two froms of human capital, knowledge and efucation. Both are required in production. The objective is to examine how...

We measure the amount of smoothing achieved through various components of the government deficit in Eu and OECD countries. For EU countries, at the 1-year frequency, 13 % of shocks to GDP are smoothed via government consumption, 18 percent via transfers, 5 % via subsidies, while taxes provide no...

The goal here is not to provide an explanation for the growth in trade over the postwar period. The fist goal of this paper is to examine whether the trade-output shares evolved gradually over the postwar period , or whether trade in individual countries changes abruptly. We analyze sequential...

The desirability of Government intervention in the functioning of a competitive economy arises in cases where the attained competitive equilibria are inefficient or fail to achieve certain important social goals. In the twentieth century, we witnessed a worldwide phenomena of intervention by...

In this paper, the author will try to describe in this lecture what economists know about foreign trade and in what ways their understanding has improved as a result of the last twenty years of research.

This paper analyzes the recent mass immigration from the USSR to Israel. We examine three interrelated features of the assimilation process; the rise in the productive capacity of immigrants as they gradually adapt to the Israeli labor market, the rising rewards that immigrants receive for their...