Las familias de buena parte de los países desarrollados venían aumentando su endeudamiento desde los años ochenta, y este proceso se aceleró significativamente en los años previos a la Gran Recesión. Al mismo tiempo, durante ese periodo se produjo una disminución de su tasa de ahorro....

We analyse the impact of fiscal policy shocks in the euro area as a whole, using a newly available quarterly dataset of fiscal variables for the period 1981-2007. To allow for comparability with previous results on euro area countries and the US, we use a standard structural VAR framework, and...

We analyse the impact of government spending shocks on the real effective exchange rate and net exports in the Euro Area within a standard structural VAR framework. We employ a new database that contains quarterly fiscal variables for the Euro Area as a whole. We show that higher government...

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....

Este trabajo documenta el comportamiento agregado de las empresas no financieras en las principales economías de la zona del euro y lo compara con el de Estados Unidos a partir de la información de las Cuentas Nacionales Sectoriales y las Cuentas Financieras. Encontramos diferencias muy...

In this paper, the author simulates the general equilibrium structure trying to mimic the observed variability of aggregate investment and the statistic properties of investment with its price and other real variables ; this model generates equilibrium prices at each period of time. The paper...