This paper examines the relationship between the distribution of income and capacity utilization in the context of the Kaleckian model of growth and distribution. We provide an exposition of the underlying theory of wage- and profit-led growth. We emphasize the implications of possible...

According to the business surveys of the Gaidar Institute1, the first data of December on the Russian industry has no (pre)crisis evidence. Demand demonstrated the dynamics which is typical of the end of the year; sales volumes suit most enterprises and there is no concern about stocks of fi...

The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008 hit Denmark particularly hard. In this paper we argue that a combination of innovation in mortgage finance and the need to defend a euro exchange rate peg was partly responsible. Sustained pressure against the Danish krone forced the central bank to...

Recent studies attempt to quantify the empirical importance of news shocks (ie., anticipated future schocks) in business cycle fluctuations. This paper identifies news schocks in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model estimated with not only actual data but also forecast data. The...

The paper studies learning with data (quasi-)differencing where agents need to (quasi-)difference data and then use an otherwise standard least squares learning procedure. It (1) establishes that the E-stability Principle is still valid for analyzing the convergence of the learning with (quasi-)...

This paper tests how macroeconomic conditions affect the value relevance of book and tax income. Based on regression coefficient estimates, more than 8% in the value relevance of book income is dependent on the interaction with a proxy for the macroeconomy. For a possible policy change where tax...

Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...

Three striking empirical regularities have been repeatedly reported: the positive correlation between housing prices and trading volume, between housing price and the time-on-the-market (TOM), and the existence of price dispersion. This short paper provides perhaps the first unifying framework...

In 2010 economic activity in Germany improved steadily. While global trade increased in the first half of the year – and, thus, German exports – domestic demand became increasingly important. Private Investment recovered and – even more important – consumption contributed to economic...

The price policy in services respects almost totally the concepts used by the classical marketing mix developed for the consumer goods. The specific elements have appeared later being related to the particular features of the services, those being in fact the factors that have allowed the...