Recent academic research has questioned the role of economic policy as a determinant of long term growth rates. While there seems to be a correlation between several policy variables and growth rates, this correlation disappears when controlling for other factors. As an example, the significance...

The propositions that monetary expansion lowers short-term nominal interest rates (the liquidity effect), and that monetary policy does not have long-run real effects (long-run neutrality), are widely accepted, yet to date the empirical evidence for both is mixed. We reconsider both propositions...

We use monthly stock market indices for 58 countries to construct pairwise correlations of returns and explain these correlations with differences in the industrial structure across these countries. We find that countries with similar industries have stock markets that exhibit high correlation...

The international macroeconomics literature has had a hard time capturing the joint comovement of quantities and asset prises across countries. We introduce recursive preferences in an endogenous growth model of innovation and technology adoption through trade in varieties and provide an...

change leads simultaneously to both higher growth and more trade.

GDP per hour (rather than GDP per capita) better measures labor productivity.

Countries with weaker economic fundamentals experienced higher currency volatility and capital flows.

Fear of demand-driven deflation calls for expansionary economic policies.