We discuss the application of a new test for nonlinearity for economic time series. We apply the test for several monthly unemployment series from the developed economies. We find nonlinearities in the unemployment for most of the European economies, but not for US, UK or Japan.

I compare the two alternative paradigms of business cycles for the case of the Romanian economy, namely the mainstream view that business cycles are driven by stochastic shocks and the nonlinear view, known as the endogenous business cycles theory, which states that business cycles are driven by...

The monthly data of the industrial production in Romania after the structural discontinuity occurring at the end of 1989 show an under-damped oscillatory behavior that suggests an evolution of second order systems excited by a step function. Since this behavior is well described in control...

"The Barometer of the Romanian Economy" intends to be a mirror of the evolution of the Romanian economy and, at the same time, to be its global indicator of the state and trend. "The Barometer of the Romanian Economy" was first published some years ago in Microeconomia aplicata, on the...

The purpose of this paper is to study and quantify the impact of the human capital in the process of economic growth in Romania over the 1990-2002 period. We will consider an augmented Cobb-Douglas production function to include the human capital, approximated by the number of schooling years...

The Barometer of the Romanian Economy" intends to be a mirror of the evolution of the Romanian economy and, at the same time, to be its global indicator of state and trend. "The Barometer of the Romanian Economy" was first published some years ago in Microeconomia aplicatã, on the initiative...

In this paper I estimate a New Keynesian Model with sticky prices for the Romanian economy for the period 1991-2002, using quarterly data. The estimation was made in Dynare using the Bayesian approach. The degree of the price stickiness is moderate. The model makes good predictions in terms of...

This paper analyses the dynamics of the Romanian economy in the 1990-2002 period, both on aggregate terms and using a sectoral decomposition. We worked in a neoclassical framework using a standard Cobb Douglas function with a Hicks neutral technology. We decomposed the economy into four sectors...

The Barometer of the Romanian Economy" intends to be a mirror of the evolution of the Romanian economy and, at the same time, to be its global indicator of state and trend. "The Barometer of the Romanian Economy" was first published some years ago in Microeconomia aplicatã, on the initiative...

In this paper I calibrate and simulate the standard Real Business Cycles model for the Romanian economy. In this respect, I use a set of estimated data for capital stock and GDP at quarterly frequency for the period 1991-2002. The results show that the standard RBC can be a starting point for...