Indicators for sustainability are necessary in order to gain insights into the development of a country's or a region's sustainability in the past and in order to forecast the future development. Based on such indicators, measures in order to strengthen or preserve sustainability can be...

This paper re-examines the cyclical behaviour of prices in nine countries over long historical periods extending in some cases between the late 1800s and the early 1990s. By evaluating the existing empirical evidence on this issue it is found that the results are sensitive to a number of factors...

Since long the economic debate is characterized by an ever growing amount of contributions dealing with questions of environmental protection, resource management or, recently, with the concept of Sustainable Development. Despite this nature - understood here as the total of all natural or...

This study attempts to analyze inequality in consumption on the basis of a method where ENGEL elasticities are derived from Concentration Curves. The idea is to apply the traditional decomposition of the GINI index by income sources to the analysis of the impact of the various consumption...

An emerging literature in the field of income distribution suggests that inequality may persist in the long run. U.S. father and son income data extracted from the PSID support the hypothesis that the distribution of earnings of children raised in privileged environments welfare-dominates that...

This survey summarizes the theoretical and empirical literature concerning the issue of inter-bank-loans and systemic risk. Starting with considerations about possible economic functions of inter-bank-relations, the paper isolates mechanisms that are potentially relevant for the banking system...

In this paper different policies of a small high-wage country towards factor mobility are studied. If technologies are identical throughout the world, then the optimal capital export policy leads to the same national income as the optimal immigration policy. In contrast, the optimal capital...

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