Advances in economic design

This volume gathers some of the finest and most recent research in economic and political design. Among the authors are several most prominent academics as well as many new and promising researchers. They investigate social choice and electoral systems, auctions, matching, bargaining, coalitional stability and ...

The real exchange rate and prices of traded goods in OECD countries

Real exchange rate changes - resulting either from shifts in nominal exchange rates or increases in costs that are asymmetric across countries - are the primary focus of this text. The book shows how exchange rates and local production costs are passed through into import prices. It ...

Migration

the boundaries of equality and justice

The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of democratic politics. But liberal democracy has no coherent theory of boundaries, or how members should be selected for political ...

Financial reckoning day

surviving the soft depression of the 21st Century

INDICE 1. The Gildered Age. 2. Progress, Perfectibility, and the End of History. 3. John Law and the Origins of a Bad Idea. 4. Turning Japanese. 5. The Fabulous Destiny of Alan Greenspan. 6. The Era of Crowds. 7. The Hard Math of Demography. 8 ...

Policy coordination in a monetary union

A comprehensive study of the international coordination of economic policy in a monetary union. 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 union central bank, the German government ...

Towards a new paradigm in monetary economics

Towards a New Paradigm for Monetary Economics presents a pioneer treatment of critical topics in monetary economics. Unlike the prevailing monetary theory, this book focuses not on the role of money in facilitating transactions, but on the role of credit in facilitating economic activities more ...

Pension policy in an integrating Europe

#Pension systems as essential institutions are perpetually pressured to meet lofty welfare and insurance goals, while still satisfying fiscal and efficiency constraints. This book provides several European perspectives for reform options from key thinkers active in the policy arena. All seeking to save pensions from ...

Currency crises in emerging markets

Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, prepared by Warsaw-based Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), discusses various aspects of currency crises in emerging-market economies: The definitions and theoretical models of currency crises, the causes, management and propagation (contagion effect) of crises, their economic, social and ...

Tax Policy

theory and practice in OECD countries

How do governments justify their choice of tax policy? What are the arguments for and against the choices they make? Are there common trends in the tax policy choices of OECD countries? This text provides a guide to tax policies pursued by the governments of ...

Controversies in monetary economics

revised edition

#This book provides an excellent overview of the controversies that have driven debate about monetary theory and policy over the last two centuries. I highly recommend the book for use in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. This new edition revises and updates some of the ...

National competitiveness and economic growth

the changing determinants of economic performance in the world economy

The current paradigm shift in the world economy is challenging the traditional competitiveness and growth theories with their few explanatory variables. This book offers a more holistic framework to synthesize the key findings of the various branches of competitiveness and growth research. INDICE Part 1 ...

Money demand in Europe

an empirical approach

The EURO has now been in place for more than two years, but only the future will tell if the ECB can manage the EURO currency in the long- term. This book discusses the economic principals underlying the demand for money, and the possibilities to ...

Empirical modeling of the economy and the environment

Eds. Cristoph Böhringer abd Andreas Löscher The papers presented in this volume address a wide range of policy themes in the context of environmental regulation. Investigated issues include the interaction between environmental regulation and economic growth, international competitiveness, structural change, pollution leakage, technological innovation, tax ...

Steuerpolitik-Von der Theorie zur Praxis

Festschrift für Manfred Rose

Die Steuerpolitik befindet sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen vielfältigen theoretischen und praktischen Anforderungen. Die Beiträge im ersten Teil der vorliegenden Festschrift widmen sich den normativen und theoretischen Aspekten der Besteuerung und spannen dabei den Bogen von der Staatsverfassung von 1808 bis zum heutigen Stand der Diskussion ...

The dollarization debate

With an emphasis on North and Latin America, this work takes a global approach to a controversial topic in the business world; dollarization. With the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and the formation of the euro in Europe, many countries and debating whether or ...

Appointing central bankers

the politics of monetary policy in the United States and the European Union

Focusing on how the President and the Senate influence monetary policy by appointing Federal Reserve Board members, this book answers three questions about the appointment process and its effects. First, do politicians influence monetary policy via Federal Reserve appointments? Second, who influences the process--only the ...

The monetary theory of production

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrument for the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquid wealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to the production of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Graziani challenges traditional theories of ...

Bienes públicos globales, política económica y globalización

La política económica debe colaborar eficazmente a que la humanidad se sitúe y se mantenga en un ciclo continuado de crecimiento económico que no suponga sólo el bienestar de unos pocos. En este punto se pone de manifiesto el interés de contar con estudios claros ...

Economic theory and global warming

In this book, Professor Uzawa modifies and extends the theoretical premises of orthodox economic theory to those broad enough to be capable of analyzing the phenomena related to environmental disequilibrium, particularly global warming, and of finding institutional arrangements and policy measures that may bring about ...

Competitiveness strategy in developing countries

a manual for policy anaysis

This text seeks to generalize the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and sheds light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and which do not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness. INDICE Part I Introduction, Concepts and Benchmarking: 1. Ganeshan ...