This paper responds to the development policy debate involving the World Bank and the IMF on the use of fiscal policy not only for economic stabilization but also to promote economic growth and increase per capita income. A key issue in this debate relates to the effect of the composition of...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Symbols -- Part 1 . On Theories of Competition and Their Empirical Predictions -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2. On Theories of Competition -- Part 2. Empirical Evidence on Industrial and Corporate Pricing and...

In macrodynamics and business cycle analysis we find nowadays a variety of approaches elaborating frameworks for studying the fluctuations in economic and financial data. These approaches are viewed from Keynesian, monetarist and rational expectations standpoints. There are now also numerous...

I. On Modeling the Cross-Dual Dynamics of Competition -- The Dynamic Equalization of Profit Rates for Input-Output Models with Fixed Capital -- The Equalization of the Rate of Profit Reconsidered -- A Cross-Over Gravitation Process in Prices and Inventories -- Stability of Production Prices in a...