Many nations are seeking to reform their welfare states so that costs to the government can be reduced and the quality of outcomes improved. As a potential way to achieve these aims, there has been a surge of interest in the Singaporean model which features compulsory savings accounts and...

Traditional models of the labor market typically assume that wages are set by the market, not the firm. However, over the last 15 years, a growing body of empirical research has provided evidence against this assumption. Recent studies suggest that a monopsonistic model, where individual firms...

Die öffentlichen Kassen in Deutschland sind derzeit prall gefüllt und werden dies auch vorerst bleiben. Die Überschüsse sind aber nicht mit dem vorhandenen Spielraum gleichzusetzen. Mittelfristig wird sich zum einen die Entlastung der öffentlichen Haushalte bei den Zinsausgaben nach und...

This paper uses hysteresis to develop the concept of policy lock-in and lock-out. Policy changes may near-irrevocably change the economy's structure, thereby changing the distribution of wealth, income and power. That may lock-in policy by changing the political equilibrium. Exit costs that...

Using the augmented version of the Blanchard - Perotti’s SVAR technique, this paper seeks to empirically estimate the size of fiscal multipliers in Turkey over the period 2002:q3-2016:q2. In contrast to many previous papers that concentrate on fiscal policy instruments -taxes and government...

Die Weltwirtschaft ist nicht immun gegen den aufflammenden Protektionismus. Vor allem der globale Warenaustausch stagnierte im bisherigen Jahresverlauf 2018. Die weltweite Investitionsdynamik lässt wieder nach. Außerdem wirken die institutionellen Probleme in einer Reihe von aufstrebenden...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft ist im dritten Quartal 2018 geschrumpft. Grund hierfür waren die Produktionsrückgänge im Automobilsektor infolge von Zulassungsstockungen. Dies wird zwar zu Nachholeffekten führen, das Wirtschaftswachstum wird sich in Deutschland in diesem Jahr allerdings nur noch auf...

The increasing inconsistency in the Turkish economy gave rise to transformations necessitated by the manner of its growth and technological changes. Between 1923 and 1962, the Turkish economy was based on agricultural growth strategies, which spurred development in the manufacturing sector and...

This paper examines the determinants of social spending in Latin America during the period 1990-2012 and how they differed between the years of the Washington Consensus (1990-2000) and the period that followed (2001-2012). Special attention is also paid to the evaluation of convergence towards a...

The interconnected issues of commodity price fluctuation, unemployment and balance of trade developments are of critical importance in times of globalization. The present paper addresses these issues in terms of a monetary dependent economy macro model that applies to a large class of emerging...