Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro Area

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central ...

Applying the dismal science

when economists give advice to governments

In this exciting collection, Iain McLean and Colin Jennings bring together some of the most eminent social scientists to have advised British governments since 1964. Successive chapters show what went wrong in UK economic policy making in the 1960s and 1970s, what goes better now ...

Welfare economics and social choice theory

Table of Contents: 1 Preferences and utility 2 Barter exchange 3 Welfare properties of market exchange 4 Welfare properties of "jungle" exchange 5 Economies with production 6 Uncertainty in exchange 7 Externalities 8 Public goods 9 Compensation criteria 10 Fairness and the rawls criterion 11 ...

The macroeconomics of fiscal policy

Leading academics and former policy makers assess the effectiveness of post-war American fiscal policy as questions about the role of fiscal policy once again come to the forefront of economic research and debate. The post- World War II emphasis on activist fiscal policy for short-term ...

Propuestas novedosas a la Política Regional de Innovación

Propuestas novedosas a la política regional de innovación tiene por objeto avanzar una propuesta atrevida de nueva Política Regional Comunitaria tendente a corregir los desequilibrios existentes en el esfuerzo innovador llevado a cabo por las distintas regiones europeas, y más concretamente en la mejora del ...

Dynamic modeling of monetary and fiscal cooperation among nations

"Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations" analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach. The first four chapters introduce the reader to the dynamics of fiscal and monetary policy cooperation. Issues covered ...

Fedralism and economic reform

international perspectives

This collection focuses on the ways in which federalism has affected and been affected by economic reform, especially global integration. The editors and contributors focus in particular on the political economy of institutional and economic change - how the division of authority between national and subnational ...

Économie monétaire et financière

Qu'est-ce que la monnaie ? Pourquoi les agents économiques en ont-ils besoin ? Comment est-elle mesurée par les autorités monétaires ? De quelle manière exerce-t-elle une influence sur l'activité économique ? Comment le système financier est-il organisé ? Quelle instance est responsable de la politique monétaire unique au ...

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology

essays in honour of Paul A. David

Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world's leading scholars ...

Innovation strategies in interdependent States

essays on Smaller Nations, regions and cities in a globalized world

Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually ...

Handbook on the economics of discrimination

Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers ...

Labour market adjustments in Europe

It is now widely accepted that expansionary fiscal or monetary policies alone are unlikely to help Europe's ailing economies. Solving Europe's economic problems requires reform of the economic institutions that influence economic activity and the way the economy responds to macroeconomic shocks. This ...

Monetary integration and dollarization

No Panacea

This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly, the book ...

Sufficient reason

volitional pragmatism and the meaning of economic institutions

In the standard analysis of economic institutions - which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations) - economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley challenges these theories, arguing instead ...

Post-keynesian principles of economic policy

Post-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that ...

Latin America's political economy of the possible

beyond good revolutionaries and free-marketeers

The political and economic transformation is now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies. Neither socialism nor free market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America ...

The Eurogroup

how a secretive circle of finance ministers shape european econommic governance

This is the first study on the work of the Eurogroup - the monthly informal meetings of the euro area's finance ministers, the Commission, and the European Central Bank. It: explains how the particular working method applied by the Eurogroup impacts on the conduct and ...

Autónomos, emprendedores, economía social y su financiación

(Revista Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, Nº86, año 2006)

SUMARIO: Intorducción. Los autónomos en el mercado de trabajo español: situación, políticas y retos. Un estatuto para el fomento del trabajo autónomo. Autoempleo, autónomos y economía social en España. Mujeres emprenndedoras: capacidades distintivas y desempeño empresarial. Nevas perspectivas en los mecanismos de financiación de los ...

Indicators for urban and regional planning

the interplay of policy and methods

This book focuses on the measurement and utilisation of quantitative indicators in the urban and regional planning fields. There has been a resurgence of academic and policy interest in using indicators to inform planning, partly in response to the current government's information intensive approach ...

Innovation dynamism and economic growth

a nonlinear perspective

Contents: Preface 1. Nonlinear Dynamism of Innovation: Executive Summary Part I: Diffusion of Innovation and Economic Growth 2. Dynamics of Product Diffusion and Economic Development 3. Kondratiev Business Cycles and Innovation Dynamism 4. Sequence of Bubble, Crash and Depression 5. Trunk Innovations and Institutional Change ...