Ein "aktivierender", die Selbstständigkeit und Eigenverantwortlichkeit der BürgerInnen anrufender Staat, der gleichzeitig auf Verunsicherung, Spaltung, Kontrolle und Bestrafung setzt - gegenwärtige Politiken des Sozialen in Deutschland erweisen sich augenscheinlich als paradox. In dieser...

It is well known by now that population ageing threatens the sustainability of fiscal policies in many countries. Although a number of policy options are available to address the problem, the uncertainty surrounding the future development of the population complicates matters. This paper...

It is well known by now that population ageing threatens the sustainability of fiscal policies in many countries. Although a number of policy options are available to address the problem, the uncertainty surrounding the future development of the population complicates matters. This paper...

Unemployment has been at unacceptable levels for at least twenty-five years and is probably Australia’s most serious economic and social problem. Emphasising the economics of the unemployment problem and focussing mainly on the labour market, a historical approach was used which viewed...

This dissertation computes the optimal monetary and fiscal policy for small open and emerging economies in an estimated medium-scale model. The model departs from the conventional approach as it encompasses all the major nominal and real rigidities normally found in the literature in a single...

This dissertation asks whether frequency misspecification of a New Keynesian model results in temporal aggregation bias of the Calvo parameter. First, when a New Keynesian model is estimated at a quarterly frequency while the true data generating process is the same but at a monthly...

This paper studies the effect of labor market reform, in the form of reductions in firing costs and unemployment benefits, on inflation volatility. With this purpose, we build a New Keynesian model with search and matching frictions in the labor market, and estimate it using Euro Area data....

Las economías avanzadas están experimentando una transformación estructural de la industria hacia los servicios. Nosotros documentamos que el cambio estructural viene con un proceso de services deepening: a lo largo del tiempo, tanto los servicios como la industria utilizan más y más bienes...