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purpose the main differences between heterodox economics in general, including post-Keynesian economics, and orthodox … economics will be reiterated and an overview over the strands of post-Keynesian economics, their commonalities and developments …
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Milton Friedman's influence on the economics profession has been enormous. In part, his success was due to political …. Friedman's professional triumph is testament to the weak intellectual foundations of the economics profession which accepted … ideas that are conceptually and empirically flawed. His success has taken economics back in a pre-Keynesian direction and …
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In this study we examine the impact on Hungary of a possible correction of global imbalances. We distinguished four different channels of the global adjustment process, which are widely referred to in the literature (fiscal tightening in the U.S.; housing price correction in the US; an increase...
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In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...
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use insights from dynamic mechanism design in monetary economics to derive properties of dynamic emissions trading …
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The aim of our contribution is to present an innovative instrument to teach macroeconomics at the undergraduate and master level. We develop a digital learning platform to present and explore some controversies at the very foundations of macroeconomic theory. For this purpose, we explicitly...
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This paper discusses the role played by NY Fed economist Robert Roosa and Paul Samuelson in the emergence of the literature on credit rationing at the beginning of the 1950s. I argue that, contrary to the story one can find in the technical surveys, an intermediate step between Roosa and the...
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The current crisis is like an earthquake for the theoretical foundations of economic policies, which have guided governments and central banks for the last few decades. The efficient market hypothesis and its application to labor markets –“natural rate theory”- dominated interpretations of...
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