The objective of the paper is to test the existence of a relationship between the composition of public expenditures and the macroeconomic outcomes (GDP rate of growth, and unemployment and inflation rates) of the European Union member states during the period 1995-2007. We study the existence...

Editorial to the Special Issue - The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy of the University of Cambridge, organized the 10th International Conference entitled...

Over the past two decades there has been a prevailing shift in economic policy in many countries. This reflects the continuing rise of neo-liberalism – the doctrine that economic policy should ‘leave it to the market’ and that governments should retreat from market...

In the mainstream economics, the postulate of rational expectations downgrades the relevance of macroeconomic policy and institutions. In a world of full information and rational expectations, aggregate demand is irrelevant in anything other than a strictly short-run context, and the only...

The objective of the paper is to analyse whether the use of Inflation Targeting (IT) has had an impact on the process of convergence of inflation rates between Latin American countries and the United States. The analysis is made using non-habitual convergence tests. Some implications arise from...

This enlightening and significant volume focuses on the nature, causes and features of economic growth across a wide range of countries and regions. Covering a variety of growth related topics – from theoretical analyses of economic growth in general to empirical analyses of growth in the...

Money, Distribution and Economic Policy takes issue with the inappropriate treatment of money, effective demand and distribution issues in modern mainstream macroeconomics. It presents contributions which are critical of modern orthodoxy and which explore alternative approaches to macroeconomics...

The literature on fiscal policy is paying increasing attention to the impact of the composition of public expenditures on long-term economic growth. Public policy endogenous growth models recommend to change the composition of public expenditures to items considered as productive expenditures....

Arguments for capital account liberalization are based on the presumed positive consequences on the economic growth of liberalizing economies. On the basis of those arguments, most Latin American countries have been engaged in intense domestic and international financial liberalization processes...