The onset of the financial crisis in 2008 brought an end to the ‘Great Stability' period, making prospects for UK and global economic growth appear not just weaker, but more uncertain. This elevated uncertainty is likely to have adversely affected spending decisions and contributed to the...

This paper examines the changing composition of OECD economies, between large sectors such as manufacturing and services. It presents several stylised facts on how these changes relate to inflation, labour productivity and real wage growth. First, manufacturing has fallen and services have...

The aim of this paper is to investigate theoretically how financial factors affect the international transmission mechanism. We build a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with sticky prices and financial frictions. To add to the literature we extend the model to include two...