Evidence suggests that smokers' responsiveness to cessation medication depends on genotypes. Whether personalized treatment based on genotypes is cost effec- tive compared to standard treatments, however, has been unexplored. We thus construct a lifecycle model with endogenous health evolution...

Financial development significantly bolsters a country's economic growth and resilience. Despite increasing focus on the relationship between financial development and economic growth, few studies examine the impact of financial development on domestic investment across countries' income levels....

This study employs a suitable volatility model that examines the impact of COVID-19 new cases and deaths on the volatility of daily job loss in Malaysia. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) were employed as the modelling...

Trotz Tertiärisierung und ungeachtet zahlreicher Krisen ist der Anteil des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes an der realen Bruttowertschöpfung seit dem Jahr 2010 weitgehend stabil geblieben. Ausgehend von diesem Maß und im Unterschied zu anderen Kennzahlen kann bislang keine tiefgreifende...

Die neue Bundesregierung wird vor der großen Herausforderung stehen, die wirtschaftliche Lage im Land mit einer mutigen Wirtschaftspolitik zu verbessern. Sie muss ein Umfeld schaffen, das Innovationen anreizt, Wachstumspotenziale hebt, sowie effektive Staatskapazitäten aufbauen, um damit auch...

We study Switzerland's weak growth during the 1990s through the lens of the business cycle accounting framework of Chari et al. (Econometrica 75(3):781-836, 2007). Our main result is that weak productivity growth cannot account for the 1993-1996 stagnation episode. Rather, the stagnation is...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp contraction of economic activity in the euro area (and worldwide). Its anatomy differs strongly from other crises in recent history. We analyse the short-term economic effects of the COVID-19 shock through the lens of an estimated DSGE model. We augment the...

A recent literature has explored the role of semi-autonomous demand growth. This paper builds on the literature by incorporating a Lernerian government semi-autonomous demand function and an endogenous supply-side. Our main purpose is threefold. First, we wish to contribute to the case for...

In this paper, we look for the relevance of chaos in the well-known Hicks-Samuelson's oscillator model investigating the endogenous fluctuations of the national income between two limits: full employment income and under-employment income. We compute the Lyapunov exponent, via Monte-Carlo...