Trade, Macroeconomics & Growth

International economic interactions (like international trade, capital mobility, and migration) are crucial for growth in the open economy. Research in this area is doveted to better understanding the interplay between economic integration and economic growth. We also highlight policy issues like optimal tax policies, economic integration, and international cooperation.

Recent Publications & Working Papers

• Bretschger, Lucas (2012): Population Growth and Natural Resource Scarcity: Long-Run Development under Seemingly Unfavourable Conditions, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Thomas M. Steger (2012): Globalization, the Volatility of Intermediate Goods Prices, and Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, in press.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2012): Endogenous Growth, Asymmetric Trade and Resource Dependence, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.

• Daubanes, Julien, and R. Berlinschi (2012): Foreign Aid and Oil Taxes: Helping the Poor in Oil-Rich Countries, Environment and Development Economics, forthcoming.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2011): International Economics and Natural Resources: From Theory to Policy, International Economics and Economic Policy, 8: 115–120.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2011): International Trade and Net Investment: Theory and Evidence, International Economics and Economic Policy, 8: 197-224.

• Brunnschweiler, Christa N. and Simone Valente (2011), International Partnerships, Foreign Control, and Income Levels: Theory and Evidence, Economics Working Paper Series 11/154, ETH Zurich.

• Peretto, P. and Simone Valente (2011): Resources, Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, 58 (4): 387-399.

• Peretto, P. and Simone Valente (2011): Growth on a Finite Planet: Resources, Technology and Population in the Long Run, Economics Working Paper Series 11/147, ETH Zurich.

• Schäfer, A. and Simone Valente (2011): Habit Formation, Dynastic Altruism and Population Dynamics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15 (3): 365-397.

• Valente, Simone (2011): Endogenous Growth, Backstop Technology Adoption and Optimal Jumps, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15 (3): 293-325.

• Valente, Simone (2011): Habit Formation and Resource Dependence in Dynastic Economies, Mathematical Social Sciences, 61 (3): 131-145.

• Valente, Simone (2011): Intergenerational Externalities, Sustainability and Welfare, Resource & Energy Economics, 33 (4): 995-1014.

• Bretschger, Lucas (2010): Taxes, Mobile Capital, and Economic Dynamics in a Globalizing World, Journal of Macroeconomics, 32 (3): 594-605.

Older publications can be found on the websites of the respective authors.

Involved Researchers

Lucas Bretschger, Julien Daubanes, Filippo Lechthaler, Lisa Leinert, Nujin Suphaphiphat, Lin Zhang.