In this paper we use the insights of the stochastic general equilibrium growth model to help understand the effects of risk on the real, risk adjusted return to capital, capital flows, exchange rate policy, and economic growth in two Pacific Basin economies, Mexico and Indonesia, over the period...

Economists have long been interested in searching for the causes and effects of the growth of income and wealth of countries. The relevant literature gradually was divided nto two banches: economic growth and development economics, with the former emphasizing the use of rigorous mathematical...

Optimal tax and monetary policies in a stochastic monetary growth model are investigated. Our findings are of three general types. First, both capital income taxes and monetary growth are shown to influence the economy through effective risk adjusted measures, expressed as a linear function of...