The traditional view of growth and fluctuations implies that aggregate demand shocks result in only transitory departures from trend or “normal” output, which is determined exclusively by aggregate supply factors. Using a simple dynamic framework for a less-developed economy, a series of models is developed to show that aggregate demand can have a permanent effect on economic growth. It is show...

Using an economic geography model, we analyze the impact of an increase in trade unions’ bargaining strength on firms’ location decision. We show that an increase in workers’ bargaining power entails two effects. On the one hand, the standard labor cost effect induces firms to relocate their production abroad. On the other hand, trade unions, by stealing profits from foreign capitalists, create...

We present a static model of aggregate demand and unemployment. The economy has a nonproduced good, a produced good, and labor. Product and labor markets have matching frictions. A general equilibrium is a set of prices, market tightnesses, and quantities such that buyers and sellers optimize given prices and tightnesses, and actual tightnesses equal posted tightnesses. In each frictional marke...

In this paper we model the pattern of international trade, and technological innovation and imitation between industrialized and developing regions, when preferences are nonhomothetic. By and large, models of the dynamics of North-South trade impose the assumption of unit income elasticity for all consumption goods. We relax this assumption and incorporate the insight from Engel’s Law: The budg...

foreign direct investment has been a key topic in development literature for a long time. many economists have written articles on the on recipient’s macroeconomic variables, transfer of capital and technology. the improvement of managerial and human resources, promotion of foreign trade with its emphasized role on economic growth of recipients. other economists have an opposite view. they have...

The paper explores the implications of different autonomous demands, with differing rates of growth, in a demand-led growth model where policy makers are concerned about the ratios of public sector debt to income and external debt to income. The actual growth rate is explained in terms of the growth rate of aggregate demand, with emphasis in the formation of expectations about growth in the lat...

in this paper in the beginning the theoretical basis of school and neo- classic keynsian new classic and new keynsian in economic frame based on market is surveyed. then evaluating and critice performed till their weak ness is underlined in this paper the viewpoint of the scientists who are in agreement with inrolvement of state in managed aggregate of also is treated evalued. during the survey...