Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics -- the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio -- appear as anomalies from the perspective of conventional wisdom...

In this paper we investigate further the 34D applied structural model whose extensive form we introduced in Chiarella and Flaschel (1999c). Here we express the model in terms of intensive form state variables, thereby abstracting from the underlying growth trend. We explain the dynamic (and...

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a...

Increasing inequality cannot be a long-run steady state — i.e. a trend that can continue indefinitely. Because the bottom 99% and top 1% in the U.S. and Canada have had very different rates of growth of market income since the 1980s, consumption and savings flows have necessarily changed. If...

This study examines if health care costs in the United States are affected by Baumol's cost disease. It relies on an empirical test proposed by Hartwig (2008) and extended by Colombier (2010) and uses a panel data set of 50 states over the 1980–2009 period. The results suggest that health care...

Coordinates of revolution, state, and uneven development in modern Mexico -- Mexican Revolution, primitive accumulation passive revolution -- Capital accumulation, state formation, and import substitution industrialization -- Neoliberalism and structural change within the global political...