We are interested in the macroeconomic implications of the separation of ownership and control. An alternative decentralized interpretation of the stochastic growth model is proposed, one where shareholders hire a self-interested manager who is in charge of the firm’s hiring and investment decisions. Delegation is seen to give rise to a generic conflict of interests between shareholders and man...

This paper deals with the stability properties of a closed market, where capital and labour force are acting like a predator–prey system in population–dynamics. The spatial movement of the capital and labour force are taken into account by cross–diffusion effect. First, we are showing two possible ways for modeling this system in only one country’s market (applying a simple functional response ...

This thesis addresses three issues in international macroeconomics. Chapter 2 provides an empirical investigation of both the shortand long-term determinants of current accounts for eight largest emerging Asian economies. The analysis is carried out within a cointegrated VAR framework. In this chapter, I show that current account behaviours in emerging Asian economies are heterogeneous. Initial...

The paper starts with a brief criticism of macroeconomic analyses of different schools of thought for their focus on economic growth and maximisation of output. This applies to the traditional Keynesian approach, which has focused on the achievement of sufficient aggregate demand to underpin full employment and full capacity utilisation, down-playing aggregate supply constraints. This also appl...