Severe economic fluctuations which had recently hit the entire world economy after relatively prosperous decades despite numerous institutional efforts to control them have recalled an interest to the theory of economic cycles. Historical data on main economic indexes and academic evidence show...

World economic crisis increases every day, and Romania begins increasingly to feel the economic recession, which economists from major global fail to find the antidote. The question to ask is: Will Romania be able in 2009 to find solutions and resources to remove the country from one of the...

This article approaches the problem of competitiveness and aims to outline the place of our country from the point of view of competitiveness as opposed to other countries; this analysis is carried out at a global level. One can notice that our country has a pretty low position in the world...

We present a model in which individuals' preferences are defined over their consumption, transfers to offspring, and social status associated with income. We show that a separating equilibrium exists where individuals' expenditure on conspicuous consumption is a signal for their unobserved...

Combining the classical “push-pull factors” and the “Lucas paradox” theoretical approaches, and taking into account the relationship between components of capital flows -through Three Stage Least Square (3SLS) estimations-, this paper shows that physical infrastructure and financial...

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth regressions with different signs for the remittance variable we show that collinearity with the lagged dependent variable might indicate that collinearity should be investigated...

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment: Estimators based on time-series variation indicate a positive link while estimators (also) exploiting the cross-sectional variation suggest a negative relationship. The present paper (i)...

In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more wide-spread access to finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1980 and 2007. The results, based on panel time-series data and analysis, con.rm the Schumpeterian prediction which...

We present a model of industrial location and endogenous growth with congestion costs. According to the interplay between knowledge spillovers and commuting costs, we are able to obtain both a Krugman-type and a bell-shaped agglomeration outcome. In the first case, the economy experiences a...

In this paper we construct a dynamic general equilibrium model to analyse different aspects of financial reforms in a two sector closed economy. Market structure in one of the sectors is perfectly competitive, while the other sector is monopolistically competitive. The perfectly competitive...