Title:Convention and Intersubjectivity: New Developments in French Economics
Author(s):LATSIS, JohnDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The recently formed French School of the "économie des conventions" have claimed that they are developing a revolutionary new approach to the social sciences. This group of researchers in economics, philosophy, sociology, ...
Title:Convergence at Last? Evidence From Transition Countries
Author(s):POLANEC, SasoDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article reexamines the hypotheses of absolute and conditional convergence for a sample of twenty-five transition countries over the period from 1990 to 2002. After splitting the sample into three four-year periods, ...
Title:Convergence in Europe: An alternative methodology
Author(s):ALAVERAS, GeorgiosDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The prime objective of this thesis is to provide an innovative methodology on how to study convergence, in the context of the European Monetary Union (EMU). In particular two aspects are examined, convergence in incomes ...
Title:Convergence in Monetary Inflation Models with Heterogeneous Learning Rules
Author(s):EVANS, George W.; HONKAPOHJA, Seppo M. S.; MARIMON, RamonDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Inflation and the monetary financing of deficits are analyzed in a model in which the deficit is constrained to be less than a given fraction of a measure of aggregate market activity. Depending on parameter values, the ...