We study the role of productivity convergence and financial conditions in the recent growth experience of Hungary. We build a stochastic, small-open economy growth model with productivity convergence, capital accumulation and external borrowing. Using empirically identified processes for...

The paper reexamines the empirical relationship between external indebtedness and the interest premium on government bonds. We use a broad sample of countries between 1980-2017 that includes advanced, emerging and less-developed economies. We show that the relationship is strongly...

The paper studies the labor share among countries of the European Union, with a particular attention to newer member states of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEU). After discussing methodological issues in the computation of the labor share, we present various stylized facts at the country level,...

Tanulmányunkban egy rugalmas árazású, kétszektoros nominális növekedési modellt építünk fel, amelyet a fokozatos tőkefelhalmozás melletti felzárkózás tanulmányozására használunk. Egy klasszikus kis, nyitott gazdaságot tekintünk, a külfölddel versenyző és nem versenyző...

A közelmúltban számos vitát hallhattunk arról, hogy a kormányzatnak milyen mértékben és milyen eszközökkel kell támogatnia az iskoláztatást. A cikkben olyan közgazdasági modellt mutat be a szerző, amely segítséget nyújthat a vita eldöntéséhez. A modell családi keretbe...

Christopher D. Carroll is an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore and research associate at NBER. He obtained his BA from Harvard University in 1986 and his PhD from MIT in 1990. He first worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and later took a job at Johns...

This paper examines the effect of economic integration on the product-level consumption patterns across the OECD in the past decade. Estimation results find evidence of strong convergence in cross-country consumption patterns with substantial heterogeneity across products and countries. The...

This article develops a model that examines the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. Cultural differences lead to frictions between natives and immigrants unless the latter make a costly investment to assimilate. This article’s key contribution is the joint analysis...