This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

This study examines the influence of select macroeconomic variables and globalization variables on the volume of patented innovations in five industrialized OECD countries (the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan, and Australia) and in five emerging countries known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,...

Los modelos DSGE modernos están microfundamentados, y sus parámetros son estructurales, así que en principio deberían ser invariantes ante cambios de política económica y no estar sujetos a la crítica de Lucas. Pero la literatura ha encontrado que problemas de especificación generan...