notes on Endogenous Growth Models

Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives...

In this note we check for the existence of an S-surve for Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia. We interpret the results in the spirit of the business cycle literature. Compare institutions, fiscal/monetary policy, whether they had currency/banking crises within the sample, how much they trade trade...

A report written on Asplund, M, and Friberg, Richard (2001). "The Law of One Price in Scandinavian Duty-Free Stores." American Economic Association, vol. 91(4), pages 1072-1083, September.

A research report on Goldberg, Pinelopi K., and Hellerstein, Rebecca (2007). "A framework for identifying the sources of local currency price stability with an empirical application," Staff Reports 287, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

This paper takes a general equilibrium approach to payroll taxation. The focus of the study will be to estimate the welfare costs due to that distortionary policy.

Computer simulators are proving to be indispensable education tools as they enable their users to readily apply theoretical knowledge and to automatically receive immediate feedback, which is invaluable both to learners and to their instructors. Yet at present, there is virtually no publically...

Critical analysis of Chapter 23 of Keynes’s Notes on Mercantilism in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936).

Coping With Antiglobalization: A Critique.

This paper describes the main directions of development in administrating and financing the Bulgarian health care system in recent years. It also provides analysis of the major issues endangering the smooth operation of the reforming health care system.