Monetary policy, fiscal policies and labour markets

macroeconomic policymaking in the EMU

Three years after the birth of the European Monetary Union (EMU) economists are still divided in their assessment of the ability of its key institutions to provide macroeconomic stability and foster the reforms necessary to stimulate economic growth. In this collection, experts focus on issues ...

The structure of regulatory competition

corporations and public policies in a global economy

In order to understand international economic regulations, it is essential to understand the variation in competing corporations' interests. This book's theoretical findings open a 'black box' in the literature on international political economy and elucidate a source of regulatory differences and similarities. Its counter-intuitive ...

Monetary strategies for joining the euro

In this book, well-known economists an policymakers look at the next step in the integration process for accesssion countries: accession to European Monetary Union

Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography

The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which ...

Europeanization,european integration and financial services

developing theoretical frameworks and synthesising methodological approaches

This book deals with the political philosophy that underpins theories of European integration and develops an understanding of Europeanization based on downloading and up-loading. Downloading is the means by which EU policy is amalgamated with domestic legislation and institutions. Up- loading indicates the use of ...

Financiación pública para la internacionalización

manual práctico para el uso de los instrumentos financieros públicos de apoyo a la actividad internacional de la empresa

Transfer pricing methods

an appications guide

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING TRANSFER PRICING. Chapter 1. Practical Aspects of Transfer Pricing. Chapter 2. Business Facets of Transfer Pricing. Chapter 3. General Principles and Guidelines. Chapter 4. Transfer Pricing Basics. PART TWO: APPLYING SPECIFIC TRANSFER TECHNIQUES. Chapter 5. Comparable Uncontrolled Price Method, Resale Price Method ...

¿Qué Europa queremos?

los retos políticos y económicos de la nueva Unión Europea

En el momento en que la Unión Europea se prepara para acoger a nuevos miembros, este libro aborda las cuestiones cruciales que conformarán su futuro como entidad regional, económica y política. Loukas Tsoukalis es uno de los más destacados expertos mundiales en integración europea y ...

Evaluación de impacto para agencias de desarrollo

aprendiendo a valorar el cambio

Negocios internacionales en un mundo globalizado

(teoría y práctica)

Negocios internacionales en un mundo globalizado, es una obra orientada al conocimiento de los aspectos teóricos en los que se sustentan los Negocios en el entorno nacional y describe el contexto y la importancia de los negocios a nivel internacional, presentando los organismos e instituciones ...

El Mercosur, los trabajadores y el ALCA

un estudio sobre la relación entre el sindicalismo sociopolítico y la integración en el Cono Sur

Los sindicalismos de los países del Cono Sur podrán incidir en las reformas institucionales que exige el Mercosur entre 2003-2006 para avanzar en su constitución como comunidad económico-política y en las negociaciones en desarrollo sobre el ALCA y el acuerdo de asociación con la Unión ...

La nueva Unión Europea

retos y desafíos de la ampliación

Cómo hacer negocios en Portugal

The interaction of monetary policy and wage bargaining in the European Monetary Union

lessons from the endogenous money approach

Sebastian Dullien gives a novel explanation for unemployment and inflation in the Euro-Zone. He argues that unemployment stems from a lack of cooperation between unions and monetary authorities: In an economy with endogenous money as EMU, wage setters are responsible for price stability while the ...

Scarcity, conflicts, and cooperation

essays in the political and institutional economics of development

This wide-ranging review of some of the major issues in development economics focuses on the role of economic and political institutions. Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and political economy, Pranab Bardhan, a leader in the field of development economics, offers a relatively ...

Employment policy and the regulation of part-time work in the European Union

a comparative analysis

This book originates from the research project #New discourses in labour law# held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into ...

The effective tax burden of companies in European Regions

an international comparison

Financing development

the power of regionalism

The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. Editors Nancy Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez call for a more open and radical regionalism. They ...

Al otro lado del Atlántico

la aventura equinoccial de la empresa española en América Latina

Las empresas españolas eligieron Latinoamérica para internacionalizarse. Durante la década 1990-2000, las principales compañías tomaron posiciones en el continente en la operación empresarial -no concertada- de mayor calado en la historia económica de España. Las decisiones tomadas en esos años han condicionado una década de ...

Financial intermediation in the New Europe

banks, markets and regulation in EU accession countries

What role will the current evolution of banking systems play in the newly adopted EU countries during the historic challenges following enlargement? This book, a blend of economics and political economy, offers a systematic analysis of the current trends in financial intermediation in the countries ...