We consider the relative effects of globalisation and regionalism in the context of recent developments in the world economy. We extent and advance the analysis of Chortareas and Pelagidis (2004) using the recently updated Penn World Tables data. This allows considering the recent ‘golden era'...

We consider an (otherwise standard) New Neoclassical Synthesis theoretical framework that allows a role for money. Money in our model has an informational role which consists in facilitating the estimation of the unobserved shocks that drive potential output and thus the state of the economy....

We consider an (otherwise standard) New Neoclassical Synthesis theoretical framework that allows a role for money. Money in our model has an informational role which consists in facilitating the estimation of the unobserved shocks that drive potential output and thus the state of the economy....