Post-Keynesian Macroeconomic Foundations for Comparative Political Economy

Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy

The Political Economy of Nominal Macroeconomic Pathologies

Recognizing that inflation and the macroeconomic policies that affect it can emanate from distributional conflicts in society, we examine the deep determinants of several nominal pathologies and related policy variables from a distributional perspective. We develop new instruments and use well-established existing instruments for these deep determinants and find that two deep determinants-socie...

The Effect of External Shocks on Macroeconomic Variables for the Iranian Economy in the form of New Keynesian DSGE Model

One of the important issues that have been the focus of economists in developed and developing countries for the last several decades is the study of the effect of External Shocks on  macroeconomic variables of those countries.In this paper In order to investigate the effect of external shocks including world oil price, exchange rate and global inflation shocks on macroeconomic variables of Ira...

Inequality , Education and Comparative Political Economy

This report investigates the evolution of economic inequalities and the drivers behind these inequalities. The authors’ economic and political analysis of developments in the labour markets and education and training systems of Germany and the UK, two countries marked by significant differences in political, economic and educational infrastructure, provides fresh contexts for thinking in these ...

Country Clustering in Comparative Political Economy

In the comparative political economy of rich democracies there is a long tradition of classifying countries into one of a small number of categories based on their economic institutions and policies. The most recent of these is the Varieties of Capitalism project, which posits two major clusters of nations: coordinated and liberal market economies. This classification has generated controversy....