Die Auswirkungen einer staatlichen Verschuldung auf das Wirtschaftswachstum werden im Rahmen eines erweiterten neoklassischen Wachstumsmodells mit AK-Technologie analysiert. Der Staat verfolgt das Ziel einer festen Defizitquote und einer langfristig konstanten Schuldenquote. In diesem Fall gibt...

Albania has been partner of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and the EU Stabilisation and Association process for the Western Balkan from the beginning. European integration requires very fundamental and far reaching reforms. Albania has faced the challenge, but in many cases reform...

Monetary policy and fiscal policy are connected in various ways. This is why the adoption of the Euro as a common European currency has been accompanied by the setup of the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact, a framework for the coordination of the EU countries' fiscal policies. In this...

The paper analyzes under which conditions a partial tax cooperation will be welfare enhancing within the cooperating regions. Starting from the standard symmetric tax competition model, subgroups of regions can form tax cooperations and thereby increase their relevant market share. As the...

Monetary policy and fiscal policy are connected in various ways. This is why the adoption of the Euro as a common European currency has been accompanied by the setup of the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact, a framework for the coordination of the EU countries’ fiscal policies. In...

The paper analyzes under which conditions a partial tax cooperation will be welfare enhancing within the cooperating regions. Starting from the standard symmetric tax competition model, subgroups of regions can form tax cooperations and thereby increase their relevant market share. As the...

Albania has been partner of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and the EU Stabilisation and Association process for the Western Balkan from the beginning. European integration requires very fundamental and far reaching reforms. Albania has faced the challenge, but in many cases reform...

The effects of public debt on economic growth are analyzed in an augmented neoclassical growth model with AK-technology. The objective of the government is a fixed deficit ratio and in the long run a constant debt ratio. Then there is a critical deficit ratio and if the deficit ratio falls below...

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface - I. DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS - 1. GUNTHER GRATHWOHL: The Macroeconomic Structure of Less Developed Countries ... 3 - II. RESEARCH ON THE ALBANIAN ECONOMY - 2. ARJETA ABAZI: Albania and its Monetary Transmission Mechanism ... 27 - 3. DORIANA DERVISHI: The Countries of...