Obstfeld (1994) shows theoretically that international economic integration accelerates economic growth of all countries in the world, which does not match the data very well. By introducing Zou (1994)'s viewpoints of mercantilism into the Obstfeld model, the paper shows that the excessive...

Technological diffusion via FDI is essential for the economic growth of backward economies. However, institutional and policy barriers may slow down technology diffusion. Using a simple theory based on Acemoglu (2009, ch. 18), we predict that there exists an interaction (i.e., a complementary)...

In this paper, we consider a finite-horizon model with the time-additive utility and the time varying discount rate. With the assumption of the concavity of absolute risk tolerance, the concavity of the consumption function has been proved. This result significantly broadens the conclusion of...

The paper shows that there do exist two kinds of steady state equilibria in the overlapping generations models with consumption and production loans, similar to the pure exchagne economies examined by Gale (1973). Furthermore, the local stability properties of these two (kinds of) steady states...

When Minsky put forward his financial instability hypothesis, he resorted – among other macroeconomic tools of analysis – to categories like income, balance-sheet, and portfolio cash flows, so as to cope with the successive stages of hedging, speculative and Ponzi schemes. This paper makes...

En nuestro país el tan sólo mencionar el voucher educativo es un tema tabú; tan tabú como proponer exigir a los beneficiarios de los Planes Sociales que concurran a escuelas de adultos a los fines de completar su educación obligatoria, como un requisito para hacerse acreedores a los...

Desde hace varios años el Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social de la República Argentina ha decidido hacer uso de las tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TICs) para mejorar las condiciones de vida de los trabajadores, ampliar las posibilidades del mercado laboral...

Whereas a clinical approach to organizations has a well-deserved predicament, narrowing down such viewpoint to governance issues in organizations shows that there has been, so far, an almost complete neglect of this field of enquiry, on which this paper intends to make a contribution. Firstly,...

Between 2003 and 2009, Argentina’s social spending as a share of GDP increased by 7.6 percentage points. Marginal benefit incidence analysis for 2003, 2006, and 2009 suggests that the contribution of cash transfers to the reduction of disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly...

This paper presents a model of the penalty-kick game between a soccer goalkeeper and a kicker, in which there is uncertainty about the kicker’s type (and there are two possible types of kicker). To find a solution for this game we use the concept of Bayesian equilibrium, and we find that,...