BEJM Topics Articles
Topics articles make a valuable contribution and will interest those working on similar topics within macroeconomics. They would be suitable for a good general-interest or field journal, such as Economic Inquiry. The publication rate is 22%.Volume 10 (2010) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Endogenous Growth, Habit Formation and Convergence Speed
Manuel A. Gómez
Volume 9 (2009) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Fiscal Shocks and Real Rigidities
Francesco Furlanetto and Martin Seneca
On Balance Sheets, Idiosyncratic Risk and Aggregate Volatility
Luis San Vicente Portes and Deniz Ozenbas
Endogenous Liquidity and Currency Unions
Brian Peterson
Oil Matters: Real Input Prices and U.S. Unemployment Revisited
Spyros Andreopoulos
Inflation Range Targets with Hard Edges
Niklas J. Westelius
Model Misspecification, Learning and the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle
Vivien Lewis and Agnieszka Markiewicz
The Burden Sharing of Pollution Abatement Costs in Multi-Regional Open Economies
Raouf Boucekkine and Marc Germain
Optimal Monetary Policy with a Convex Phillips Curve
Demosthenes N. Tambakis
Cointegration and Asymmetric Adjustment: Some New Evidence Concerning the Behavior of the U.S. Current Account
Mark J. Holmes and Theodore Panagiotidis
Risk-Adjusted Forecasts of Oil Prices
Patrizio Pagano and Massimiliano Pisani
Evaluating Communication Strategies for Public Agencies: Transparency, Opacity, and Secrecy
Axel Lindner
The Source of UK Historical Economic Fluctuations: An Analysis Using Long-Run Restrictions
Neville Francis
Inflation Bias with Dynamic Phillips Curves and Impatient Policy Makers
Tatiana Kirsanova, David Vines, and Simon Wren-Lewis
Regime Switches in GDP Growth and Volatility: Some International Evidence and Implications for Modeling Business Cycles
Penelope Smith and Peter M. Summers
Dynamic Optimal Taxation with Human Capital
Leslie J. Reinhorn
Unions, Wage Setting and Monetary Policy Uncertainty
Hans Peter Gruener, Bernd Hayo, and Carsten Hefeker
Taxing Overtime or Subsidizing Employment
Victoria Osuna
Transitional Dynamics in the Solow-Swan Growth Model with AK Technology and Logistic Population Change
Alberto Bucci and Luca Guerrini
Inflation Targeting: A Framework for Communication
Maria Demertzis and Nicola Viegi
Volume 8 (2008) - Issue 1 (Topics)
The Importance of Industrial Policy in Quality-Ladder Growth Models
Paolo E. Giordani and Luca Zamparelli
The Evolution of International Output Differences (1970-2000): From Factors to Productivity
Pedro C. Ferreira, Samuel A. Pessoa, and Fernando A. Veloso
Non-Linearities and Unit Roots in G7 Macroeconomic Variables
Yunus Aksoy and Miguel A. Leon-Ledesma
Mitigating the Growth-Effects of Inflation through Financial Development
Niloy Bose and Antu P. Murshid
The Dynamics of European Inflation Expectations
Joerg Doepke, Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche, and Jiri Slacalek
Target Saving in an Overlapping Generations Model
Brishti Guha and Ashok S. Guha
Inequality, Volatility and Labour Market Efficiency
Lawrence Uren
Expected Equity Returns and the Demand for Money
Liliana V. Stern and Michael L. Stern
Consolidation of Student Loan Repayments and Default Incentives
Felicia A. Ionescu
Advent of Industrial Mass Production: Three Stages of Economic Development
Rudrani Bhattacharya and Satya P. Das
Determinants of Bilateral Remittance Flows
Erik Lueth and Marta Ruiz-Arranz
Economic and Socio-Political Determinants of de Facto Monetary Institutions and Inflationary Outcomes
Fabrizio Carmignani, Emilio Colombo, and Patrizio Tirelli
On Equilibrium Determinacy in New Keynesian Models with Staggered Wage and Price Setting
Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke, and Christian R. Proaño
Volume 7 (2007) - Issue 1 (Topics)
To Pool or to Aggregate? Tests with a Dynamic Panel Macroeconometric Model of Australian State Labor Markets
Kausik Chaudhuri and Jeffrey R. Sheen
Economic Growth: A Channel Decomposition Exercise
Wei-Kang Wong
Optimal Monetary Policy, Endogenous Sticky Prices, and Multiple Equilibria
Levon Barseghyan and Riccardo DiCecio
A Simple Wicksellian Macroeconomic Model
Charles Weise
Confidence-Enhanced Economic Growth
Angus C. Chu
A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Juan Dolado, Marcel Jansen, and Juan Jimeno Serrano
The Political Economy of Numbers: On the Application of Benford's Law to International Macroeconomic Statistics
John Nye and Charles Moul
Exchange Rate Regimes, Inflation and Growth in Developing Countries -- An Assessment
Michael Bleaney and Manuela Francisco
Does Permanent Income Determine the Vote?
Jo Thori Lind
Rich, Poor and Growth-Miracle Nations: Multiple Equilibria Revisited
Dmytro Kylymnyuk, Lilia Maliar, and Serguei Maliar
Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy
Egil Matsen, Tommy Sveen, and Ragnar Torvik
Assessing Sign Restrictions
Matthias Paustian
Euro Area Inflation Differentials
Ignazio Angeloni and Michael Ehrmann
Decomposing Consumer Wealth Effects: Evidence on the Role of Real Estate Assets Following the Wealth Cycle of 1990-2002
Michael Donihue and Andriy Avramenko
Gold, Fiat Money, and Price Stability
Michael D. Bordo, Robert D. Dittmar, and William T. Gavin
Fiscal Discipline and the Cost of Public Debt Service: Some Estimates for OECD Countries
Silvia Ardagna, Francesco Caselli, and Timothy Lane
Institutional Determinants of International Equity Portfolios - A Country-Level Analysis
Barbara Berkel
Volume 6 (2006) - Issue 3 (Topics)
Structural Factor-Augmented VARs (SFAVARs) and the Effects of Monetary Policy
Francesco Belviso and Fabio Milani
Multi-product Firms, R&D, and Growth
Antonio Minniti
Money Creation in a Random Matching Model
Alexei Deviatov
Stochastic Capital Depreciation and the Co-movement of Hours and Productivity
Michael Dueker, Andreas Fischer, and Robert Dittmar
The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles in an Economy with Nonclearing Markets
Franck Portier and Luis A. Puch
The Role of Government Commitment for Environmental Policy and Capital Movements
Laura Marsiliani and Thomas I. Renström
Volume 6 (2006) - Issue 2 (Topics)
Hicks Neutral Technical Change Revisited: CES Production Function and Information of General Order
Arnaud Dupuy
R&D Subsidies and the Surplus Appropriability Problem
Anders Sørensen
Literacy and Growth
Serge Coulombe and Jean-François Tremblay
The Fed's Preference for Policy Rate Smoothing: Overestimation Due to Misspecification?
Efrem Castelnuovo
Inflation Targeting in Western Europe
Antonio Moreno and Luis Rey
On the Political Economy of Housing's Tax Status
Essi Eerola and Niku Määttänen
Rating Agencies and Sovereign Debt Rollover
Mark Carlson and Galina B. Hale
How Does the New Keynesian Monetary Model Fit in the U.S. and the Eurozone? An Indirect Inference Approach
Ramón María-Dolores and Jesús Vázquez
Equilibrium Wage Dispersion: An Example
Damien Gaumont, Martin Schindler, and Randall Wright
Exchange Rate Regimes, Specialization and Trade Volume
Michael B. Devereux and Graham M. Voss
A Refinement in the Specification of Empirical Macroeconomic Models as an Extension to the EBA Procedure
Jeffrey A. Edwards, Alfred Sams, and Benhua Yang
Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight
Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Areendam Chanda, and Chetan Ghate
Measuring the Dissemination of Volatility across Levels of Development
Jeffrey A. Edwards, Frank C. Thames, and Martin S. Edwards
Volume 6 (2006) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Contracts and Money Revisited
Antoine Martin and Cyril Monnet
On the Use of Substitutability as a Measure of Competition
Winfried Koeniger and Omar Licandro
Can the AK Model Be Rescued? New Evidence from Unit Root Tests with Good Size and Power
Diego Romero-Avila
How Tight Should One's Hands be Tied? Fear of Floating and the Credibility of Exchange Rate Regimes
Jesús Rodríguez-López and Hugo Rodriguez Mendizabal
Uncertainty and Debt-Maturity in Emerging Markets
Matthieu Bussiere, Marcel Fratzscher, and Winfried Koeniger
Quantitative Monetary Easing and Risk in Financial Asset Markets
Takeshi Kimura and David H. Small
Biased Technical Change and Capital-Labour Substitution in Finland, 1902-2003
Jukka Jalava, Matti Pohjola, Antti Ripatti, and Jouko Vilmunen
Long-Run Money Growth and the Liquidity Effect
Richard Cothren and Jeffrey A. Edwards
Differentiability of the Efficient Frontier when Commitment to Risk Sharing is Limited
Thorsten V. Koeppl
A Model of Veblenian Growth
Baochun Peng
Human Capital Composition, R&D and the Increasing Role of Services
Tiago Neves Sequeira and Ana B. Reis
Bank Lending with Imperfect Competition and Spillover Effects
Sumru G. Altug and Murat Usman
Volume 5 (2005) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Non-Scale Models of R&D-based Growth: The Market Solution
Thomas M. Steger
Parameter Instability, Model Uncertainty and the Choice of Monetary Policy
Carlo A. Favero and Fabio Milani
Job Insecurity, Reallocation and Technological Innovation in a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Koen Vermeylen
The Scope of Monetary Policy Actions Authorized Under the Federal Reserve Act
David H. Small and James Clouse
Matching Up the Data on Education with Economic Growth Models
Chris Papageorgiou and Fidel Pérez-Sebastián
An Active Public Investment Rule and the Downsizing Experience in the US: 1960-2000
Gustavo A. Marrero
Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Dollarization: Does Flexibility Reduce Currency Mismatches in Bank Intermediation?
Carlos O. Arteta
U.S. Regional Income and Technology: A Unit-Root and Cointegration Study
Eskander Alvi and Habibur Rahman
Firm Entry with an Imperfect Labor Market
Justin P. Johnson
Fiscal Policy and the Price Level
Barbara Annicchiarico and Giancarlo Marini
Income Taxation, Productive Government Expenditure and Stochastic Growth: On Conditions for an Optimal Policy and the Role of the Risk Premium
Christiane Clemens
Income and Wealth Distributions Along the Business Cycle: Implications from the Neoclassical Growth Model
Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar, and Juan Mora
Ramsey-Friedman Optimality with Banking Time
Max K. Gillman and Oleg Yerokhin
Optimal Fiscal Policy with Rationing in the Labor Market
Arantza Gorostiaga
The Monetary Policy Committee's Reaction Function: An Exercise in Estimation
Charles A.E. Goodhart
Policy Effects in the Post Boom U.S. Economy
Ray C. Fair
Human Capital and Growth: An Alternative Accounting
Peter C. Rangazas
Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover
Erwan Quintin and John J. Stevens
Volume 4 (2004) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Empirical Perspectives on Long-Term External Debt
Philip R. Lane
Output Gap Uncertainty and Monetary Policy During the 1970s
David E. Spencer
The UK Household Sector Demand for Risky Money
Thomas Elger and Jane M. Binner
The Relationship between Stock Prices, House Prices and Consumption in OECD Countries
Alexander Ludwig and Torsten Sløk
Labor Market Performance and Flexibility: Which Comes First?
Enrico Saltari and Riccardo Tilli
A Simple Locally Interactive Model of Ergodic and Nonergodic Growth
Valentina Corradi and Antonella Ianni
Do Minimum Wages Raise the NAIRU?
Peter Tulip
Strictly Endogenous Growth with Non-renewable Resources Implies an Unbounded Growth Rate
Christian Groth
Creative Destruction and Policy in a Model of Endogenous Growth
Xavier Mateos-Planas
Intergenerational Habits, Fiscal Policy, and Welfare
Delia Velculescu
Socio-Cultural Variables and Economic Success: Evidence from Italian Provinces 1951-1991
Giovanni Peri
Imbalance Effects in the Lucas Model: an Analytical Exploration
Raouf Boucekkine and Ramon Ruiz Tamarit
Assessing Aggregate Tests of Efficiency for Dynamic Economies
Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, and Ashok Kaul
Unions and Workforce Adjustment Costs
Giulio Piccirilli
Volume 3 (2003) - Issue 1 (Topics)
The Human Capital Constraint: Of Increasing Returns, Education Choice and Coordination Failure
Shekhar Aiyar
How Prudent are Community Representative Consumers?
Yuyu Chen and Li-An Zhou
Price Distribution in a Symmetric Economy
Klaus Kultti and Juha Virrankoski
Shiftwork, Adjustment Costs and Uncertainty
Yishay D. Maoz
How Do Future Constraints Affect Current Investment?
Enrico Saltari and Giuseppe Travaglini
The Politics of Endogenous Growth
Chetan Ghate
Sticky Prices, Coordination and Enforcement
John C. Driscoll and Harumi Ito
Fractional Integration with Bloomfield Disturbances in the Specification of Real Output in the G7 Countries
Luis A. Gil-Alana
Monetary Policy When the Nominal Short-Term Interest Rate is Zero
James Clouse, Dale Henderson, Athanasios Orphanides, David H. Small, and P.A. Tinsley
High-Tech Human Capital: Do the Richest Countries Invest the Most?
Tiago Neves Sequeira
Substitution Elasticities and Investment Dynamics in Two-Country Business Cycle Models
Michael R. Pakko
Volume 2 (2002) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Quality Improvements, the Structure of Employment, and the Skill-bias Hypothesis Revisited
Volker Grossmann
Optimal Taxation and Public Expenditure in a Model of Endogenous Growth
Rafael Doménech and Jose Ramón García
The Revival of Scale Effects
Yasuyuki Todo and Koji Miyamoto
Volume 1 (2001) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Auctions and Posted Prices in Directed Search Equilibrium
Benoit Julien, John Kennes, and Ian Paul King
Fiscal institutions and welfare in an open economy
Juan Carlos Negrete