This paper investigates the relationship between height and some measures of human welfare in Spain for the period 1850-1978. For that purpose, we employ several filtering methods to measure the correlation between variables such as first order differences, deterministic trends, the Hodrick and...

I contemplate the Taylor rule as a benchmark for setting monetary policy in some Accession Countries to the EU in the 1998-2003 period. I find that countries with a floating exchange rate regime (the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary) moved short-term interest rates as suggested by the Taylor...

This paper presents empirical evidence about the determinants of the arrival times and the magnitude of interventions taken by the Bank of Spain during the period of 1984-98 in order to modify its monetary-policy stance. Interventions are captured by changes in the marginal day-to-day interest...

I contemplate the Taylor rule as a benchmark for setting monetary policy in some Accession Countries to the EU in the 1998-2003 period. I find that countries with a floating exchange rate regime (the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary) moved short-term interest rates as suggested by the Taylor...

This paper analyzes the curse of natural resources from a new approach, taking as reference object the economy of the Netherlands. It is shown how the deindustrialization process of an economy suffers as a result of the natural resource sector development, and how it may cause lower growth rates...