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 ...

IMF essays from a time of crises

the international financial system,stabilization, and development

Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections ...

Globalization of financial markets

causes of incomplete integration and consequences for economic policy

The internationalization of financial markets is one of the focal points in the discussion about recent globalization trends. These discussions suggest that capital can move freely between countries. However, there is ample evidence that national borders do matter and that there are many implicit and ...

International economics

The sixth edition of "International Economics" improves and builds upon the popular features of previous editions, with added sections on topics including: developments in international trade agreements and international trade talks; and international financial crises. INDICE Part 1: International Trade and Trade Policy 2. Patterns ...

Multinational finance

Multinational Finance is an authoritative and comprehensive description of the theory and practice of international finance and its management. This fifth edition builds on the strengths of previous editions, offering a user-friendly guide to the subject that moves through the basics to the advanced with ...

Strategic business alliances

an examination of the core dimensions

Strategic Business Alliances examines key issues in the analysis, management and performance of international joint ventures using a sample of UK-European equity joint ventures. The authors consider the viewpoint of all configurations of the international joint venture # UK parent, European parent and joint venture management ...

Comercio exterior agrario

fundamentos y análisis

España en Europa, 1945-2000

del ostracismo a la modernidad

Situarse a la altura de los primeros países de Europa, integrarse en sus organismos y contribuir a la construcción europea; éstos han sido los objetivos prioritarios de España a lo largo de los cambios formidables que ha experimentado desde los años del ostracismo en la ...

Privileging industry

the comparative politics of trade and industrial policy

An important contribution to our understanding of how political institutions and political geography shape political outcomes. Fiona McGillivray argues that differences in political institutions or in industrial structures do not have the straightforward effects on political outcomes that are normally attributed to them. Instead, she ...

From subsistence to exchange

and other essays

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings ...

Otro mundo es posible si...

Nunca como hasta ahora se ha intentado democratizar el espacio internacional o asegurar una existencia digna a todos los habitantes de la Tierra. Estos objetivos ya no son utópicos, sino posibilidades prácticas, de ahí la declaración de que otro mundo es posible: porque realmente lo ...

Contra Hollywood

estrategias europeas del mercado cinematográfico y audiovisual

Emigración, pobreza y desarrollo

Los movimientos migratorios constituyen un fenómeno de creciente relevancia en el mundo actual. Consideradas en su conjunto, las migraciones son un importante factor de cambio social, tanto para los países emisores como para los receptores. Si para estos últimos el reto es disponer de políticas ...

R&D, innovation and competitivness in the european chemical industry

R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry explores the science & technology base and the dynamic performance of the European "system of innovation" in the chemical industry, with particular attention to its contribution to economic growth through innovation and competitiveness, and its ability to translate its research into commercially useful products. It also analyses the forces that encourage the diffusion of chemical innovations on downstream user industries and among large and small firms. The studies presented in this book represent an analysis of the issues and questions raised by the Green Paper on Innovation presented by the European Commission, for the specific case of the European chemical industry. R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry will be of interest to industry and government experts related to the chemical industry, scholars; both faculty and graduate students interested in growth, corporate strategy and the management of innovation.

Cómo hacer negocios en Portugal

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 ...

The European Union encyclopedia and directory 2005

This nine volume set of regularly revised titles provides in-depth analysis of all the regions of the world.

Venezuela más allá de Chávez

crónicas sobre el 'Proceso Bolivariano'

Historia de un economista

un consultor se enfrenta al hambre y al Banco Mundial

Es la historia de un economista que durante cuatro meses trabajó para el Banco Mundial en Sierra Leona. Peter Griffiths fue contratado para impedir una hambruna inminente. Escrita como un diario, narra en primera persona la vivencia de un consultor que se verá enfrentado a ...

The process of internationalization

strategic, cultural and policy perspectives