The paper asks whether subsidies aiming to redistribute economic activity across regions can be justified with the welfare argument. Moreover, different tax systems are compared with respect to the size of the subsidy needed for achieving a certain spatial distribution of economic activity, and...

New Keynesian Economics that rely on the DSGE technology has been criticized as being hopelessly inadequate for dealing with financial crises of the type that we have seen in recent years or - more generally - with failures of the intertemporal price mechanism to coordinate investment and...