We study a demand-driven growth and distribution model with a public sector, both without and with government debt. Government spending is used to finance the accumulation of public capital and to pay wages to public employees. The interaction between public capital and induced technical change...

We study a demand-driven growth and distribution model with a public sector, both without and with government debt. Government spending is used to finance the accumulation of public capital and to pay wages to public employees. The interaction between public capital and induced technical change...

This article aims to analyze the relationship between inflation and unemployment in the United States, in the 1960s and 2010, from the surplus approach. The objective is to compare this relationship in these two decades, which end with low unemployment rates, to understand the scenario of the...

In the United States, the funding of pensions is based on two pillars: a PAYG system pays basic pensions at a federal level; pension funds managed by public or private employers complete this system. The recession of 2009 has reduced the resources of the PAYG system. However, the funding has not...

This paper presents a summary of the U.S. pension system. First, our goal is to explain how unfunded and funded pension schemes work. We also study how the economic and financial crisis has affected these different schemes. Moreover, we examine the official long-run forecasts of the evolution of...

This article aims to analyze the relationship between inflation and unemployment in the United States, in the 1960s and 2010, from the surplus approach. The objective is to compare this relationship in these two decades, which end with low unemployment rates, to understand the scenario of the...

This article updates one of four trends in the US economy which were highlighted in a previous paper "Whither the US economy" published in 1999 in this Review. It focuses on the developments in the external accounts. In addition to showing a rapid increase in the negative US current account...

This article updates one of four trends in the US economy which were highlighted in a previous paper "Whither the US economy" published in 1999 in this Review. It focuses on the developments in the external accounts. In addition to showing a rapid increase in the negative US current account...

USAGE is a 500 industry dynamic computable general equilibrium model of the US economy being developed at Monash University in collaboration with the US International Trade Commission. In common with the MONASH model of Australia, USAGE is designed for four modes of analysis: Historical, where...

This paper explains non-mortgage borrowing by U.S. households with demand-side factors, viz. disposable income, wealth and interest rate. The life cycle hypothesis and a standard two period consumption model are the basis of our theoretical model. We find with the cointegration techniques that...