Sticky price models featuring heterogeneous firms and systematic firm-level productivity trends deliver radically different predictions for the optimal inflation rate than their popular homogenous-firm counterparts: (1) the optimal steady-state inflation rate generically differs from zero and...

In den zentralen Modellen der Neuen Wachstumstheorie (NWT) wird durch die Einführung von Externalitäten bei der Akkumulation von Sach- und Humankapital endogenes Wachstum des Pro-Kopf-Einkommens möglich. Diese Vorgehensweise basiert auf Kenneth Arrows Konzept des learning by doing. Während...

This article is devoted to the search for a solution to overcoming the consequences of the global financial and economic crisis and the development of a post-crisis global economy. The purpose of this article is to determine perspectives and directions for the development of new growth poles in...

"A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which...