This work seeks to answer the "population question," i.e. the effect of population growth on production per capita. This question has lingered in economic thought for centuries and to this day two general lines of thought can be identified, which might be marked as the "optimist" and the...

In this work we solve in a closed form the problem of an agent who wants to optimise the inter-temporal utility of both his consumption and leisure by choosing: (i) the optimal inter-temporal consumption, (ii) the optimal inter-temporal labour supply, (iii) the optimal share of wealth to invest...

This paper incorporates a bubble term in the standard FTPL equation to explain why countries with persistently negative primary surpluses can have a positively valued currency and low inflation. It also provides an example with closed-form solutions in which idiosyncratic risk on capital...

Die zunehmende Arbeitslosigkeit in der Bundesrepublik äußert sich in einer Außenverlagerung der Beveridge-Kurve. In dieser Arbeit werden ausgehend von einem Strom-Bestands-Ansatz die theoretischen Ursachen hierfür analysiert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei der Einfluß von Lohnsetzung und...