Intro -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Institutions and Economic Performance -- 1 On Institutions and Growth -- 2 Financial Institutional Reform, Growth, and Equality -- 3 How Do Institutions Lead Some Countries to Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others? -- 4 Regulation and...

Intro -- Abstracts -- Introduction -- 1 The Source of Historical Economic Fluctuations: An Analysis using Long-Run Restrictions -- Comment Harald Uhlig, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Tilburg University, Bundesbank, and CEPR -- 2 Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap --...

A proposal that the notion of specificity--the idea that factors of production are not interchangeable--can provide a unified framework to analyze and understand a wide variety of macroeconomic phenomena stemming from the transactional environment and microeconomic restructuring.

Recent academic research findings on topics relating to taxation and social insurance policy, including the implicit tax imposed by Medicaid on private long-term care insurance benefits, an alternative system of unemployment insurance, and federal energy tax policy.

A framework for online decision making under uncertainty and time constraints, with online stochastic algorithms for implementing the framework, performance guarantees, and demonstrations of a variety of applications.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The TAC Travel-Shopping Game -- 3 Bidding in InterdependentMarkets -- 4 Price Prediction -- 5 Bidding with Price Predictions -- 6 Machine Learning and Adaptivity -- 7 Market-Specific Bidding Strategies -- 8 Experimental Methods and Strategic...

Purpose Our paper studies a central issue with a long history in economics: the relationship between population and economic growth. We analyze the joint dynamics of economic and demographic growth in 111 countries during the period 1960-2019. Design/methodology/approach Using the concept of...