The Japanese economy has experienced an unprecedented period of macroeconomic turbulence over recent years. Even before the 1997 Asian crisis, this had led to a sharp rise in the number of financial institutions experiencing bankruptcy, including a number of large regional banks and an international stockbroking firm. The question we seek to address is, What effect has this economic turbulence ...

macroeconomic stabilitv is a major prerequisite fo r real economic growth. in th is study in order to allalyse tile empirical relation ship between macroeconomic instability and per capita real growth, a regression model has been specifi ed for tile iranian economy . in this equation , lour variables including hudget deficit as a ratio to gdp. intlation rate , percenltlge change in tile rea! ex...

Financial safety nets are intended to reduce the likelihood and severity of financial crises that have macroeconomic externalities. While safety nets are intended to confer benefits on the macroeconomy, their design and implementation may confer disproportionate benefits on identifiable sectors, such as banks and depositors. In this study, we distinguish between safety net benefits and subsidie...

How can current measures, strategies and framework conditions be modified in order to enable a higher quality of life, despite weak Which instruments and strategies are necessary in order to maintain or increase the provision of ecosystem services in times of weak growth? ..

It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that an important part of the macroeconomic environment is monetary policy. The actions of central banks have material effects on financial markets and can shape macroeconomic outcomes. Indeed, over recent decades it became widely accepted that monetary policy was the primary macroeconomic stabilisation tool and that monetary policy could effectively man...

AG represents only one, it’s true that it is very fashionable today, of the new instruments which began to be used lately in the macroeconomic modelling. Here, it may also be mentioned the classification systems, the genetic programming, the models based on agents, the evolutionist games etc. The characteristics of all these methods consist in the effort to detect the internal dynamic processes...

Macroeconomic shocks and labour-market institutions jointly determine employment growth and economic performance. The effect of shocks depends on the nature of these institutions and the effect of institutional change depends on the macroeconomic environment. It follows that a given set of institutions may be appropriate in one epoch and not in another. We derive a dynamic model of labour deman...

This study tries to answer the question, “has macroeconomic instability detrimental impact on gross domestic product of Pakistan over the period of 1980 to 2012?” For reviewing macroeconomic instability a comprehensive macroeconomic instability index is constructed by incorporating inflation rate, unemployment rate, trade deficit and budget deficit. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model h...