In this paper, a dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) model of growth–inequality relationships, with missing credit markets, knowledge spillover and self-employed agents, is calibrated to New Zealand data. The model explains how two distinct policy shocks involving redistribution and immigration...

This paper proposes a simple variation of the Allingham and Sandmo (1972) construct and integrates it to a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents. We study an overlapping generations framework i n which agents must initially decide whether to evade taxes or not. In the...

The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d'intesa...

Die Arbeit geht zunächst auf die Herausforderungen der Makroökonomischen Theorie durch die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ein, bevor die finanzpolitischenMöglichkeiten der Schweiz diskutiert werden, mit denen dieser Krise bzw. ihren Auswirkungen begegnet werden kann. Es zeigt sich, dass die...

The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d'intesa...

Economic crisis has been activated keynesianism. The current trends of the brazilian economy make it advisable to reseat the structuralism in economic debate. This is the primary goal of this article. To do this, it discusses a “two sector” macroeconomic model whereby sought to show its...