Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 30
Public policy and growth in Canada: an applied endogenous growth model with human and knowledge capital accumulation
(Elsevier, 2015)
Evidence suggests that the Canadian economy is over-shadowed with lagging productivity growth and that its innovation strategy lacks a market-oriented focus; and is unbalanced and biased. We study this problem with the aid ...
On the macroeconomic impact of the August 1999 earthquake in Turkey: a first assessment
(Routledge, 2001)
The devastating earthquake that struck the most densely populated and industrialized area of Turkey on 17 August, 1999 was one of the most damaging natural disasters during this century. This paper is a first attempt to ...
The Turkish encounter with neo-liberalism: economics and politics in the 2000/2001 crises
(Routledge, 2005)
Turkey initiated an extensive dis-inflation program in December 1999 backed and supervised by The International Monetary Fund (IMF). The program aimed at decreasing the inflation rate to a single digit by the end of 2002. ...
An applied endogenous growth model with human and knowledge capital accumulation for the Turkish economy
(Routledge, 2015-10-02)
We analytically investigate and assess the interactions between knowledge-driven growth, acquisition of human capital, and the role of strategic public policy for the Turkish economy within the context of a general equilibrium ...
A plea for greater attention on the data in policy analysis
(Elsevier Inc., 1999)
The technical difficulties associated with building and solving applied general equilibrium (GE) models seem to have distracted our attention from the data. In this article, we forcefully stress that whatever the sophistication ...
Strategic policies and growth: an applied model of R&D-driven endogenous growth
(Elsevier BV, 1999)
We introduce and explore a general equilibrium model with R&D-driven endogenous growth, whose antecedents are the models of Romer (1990) [Romer, P.M., 1990. Endogenous technological change. Journal of Political Economy, ...
The minimal conditions for a financial crisis: a multiregional intertemporal CGE model of the Asian crisis
(Pergamon Press, 2000)
The globalization of world capitalism constrains the ability of the developmental state to pursue an independent industrialization and foreign trade strategy. We use an intertemporal, multiregion CGE model, to study the ...
Analysing macro-poverty linkages of external liberalisation: gaps, achievements and alternatives
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005)
CGE modelling has dominated analysis of the impact of external liberalisation on poverty. This article provides a structuralist critique of standard neo-classical CGE models. It highlights five sets of gaps and partial ...
Politics, society and financial liberalization: Turkey in the 1990s
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2000)
This article focuses on the political economy of Turkey in the 1990s toillustrate the importance of analysing economic variables that intersect withthe quality of political democracy. In 1989, the debt-ridden state moved ...
Is this the end of economic development?
(Elsevier BV, 2000)
The paper reviews the policies and institutions used by governments that have successfully promoted economic development. It examines which policy instruments countries can still wield in the current global trading and ...