La política de empleo en España

Informe de base sobre instituciones, procedimientos y medidas de política de empleo: año 2003

Politica comunitaria di coesione economica e sociale e programmazione economica regionale

Lecciones de la deflación

Estados Unidos frente a Japón

The roaring nineties

United States Department of the Treasury

current issues and background

Economía ambiental

un análisis crítico

El consumo

Unemployment, market structure and growth

The recent labour-market performance varies greatly between the United States and continental Europe on the one hand, and between the low- and high-skilled on the other. This book starts by presenting up-to-date empirical evidence on these stylised facts and on the importance of the intensity ...

The political economy of European unemployment

European integration and the transtionalization of the (un)employment question

This edited collection examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. It combines theoretical chapters with detailed case-studies of Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Central Europe. INDICE 1. Henk Overbeek ...

How to reduce unemployment in Europe

Including contributions from some of the world's most respected economists, this volume examines the performance of the European labour market compared to the US market and the countries in Europe that might represent a best and worst practice, and offers "an economists' manifesto for ...

Experiencing wages

social and cultural aspects of wage forms in Europe since 1500

European and Canadian contributors from the distinct but related fields of wage and labor history offer different perspectives on the fundamental question of how people were paid for their work. Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables 1 The wage in Europe since the ...

Business cycles in the contemporary world

description, causes, aggregation, and synchronization

Contents: 1. Introduction PART I. METHODOLOGY 2. General Considerations and Historiography 3. The Analysis of Cyclical Dynamics PART II. NATIONAL, SUPRA- AND INTERNATIONAL CYCLES 4. The G7 and Euro15 Economies: 1960-2000 5. Mode-Locking and the Global Cycle PART III. THE SECTORAL CONSTITUTION OF MACRO-CYCLES 6 ...

General equilibrium

problem and prospects

Certain leading figures in the world of economics have called the usefulness of general equilibrium theory into question. This volume brings together leading economic theorists with important contributions to the ongoing debate

The Big Mac index

applications of purchasing power parity

PPP is one of the most widely researched areas in international finance and one of the most controversial in the theory of exchange rate determination. This book demonstrates the applications of Purchasing Power Parity in exchange rate determination as well as more practical applications of ...

Les théories des crises économiques

Les crises économiques sont-elles inéluctables ? Quel rôle jouent-elles dans la croissance économique ? Quelles sont la nature et l#ampleur des désaccords entre les théoriciens des crises ? Ce livre s#intéresse aux principales théories des crises pour mieux comprendre la situation économique actuelle. C#est aussi ...

Investment

theories and analysis

This text provides an examination of the key macroeconomic theories which underpin fixed asset investment. It would make ideal reading for an intermediate level macroeconomics course or a module on fixed asset investment taking an applied macroeconomic perspective. Table of Contents Section I Introduction: introduction ...

Asset prices, booms and recessions

financial market, economic activity and the macroeconomy

The book studies the interaction of the financial market, economic activity and the macroeconomy from a dynamic perspective. The financial market to be studied here encompasses the money and bond market, credit market, stock market and foreign exchange market. Economic activity is described by the ...

Assets, beliefs, and equilibria in economic dynamics

essya in honor of Mordecai Kurz

A collection of papers dealing with a broad range of topics in mathematical economics, game theory and economic dynamics. The contributions present both theoretical and applied research. The volume is dedicated to Mordecai Kurz. The papers were presented in a special symposium co-hosted by the ...

General equilibrium analysis

existence and optimality properties of equilibra

General Equilibrium Analysis is a systematic exposition of the Walrasian model of economic equilibrium with a finite number of agents, as formalized by Arrow, Debreu and McKenzie at the beginning of the fifties and since then extensively used, worked and studied. Existence and optimality of ...

Open economy macrodynamics

an integrated disequilibrium approach

In the first part of this book, we treat interacting and small open economies. We do this from an historical perspective, starting from the Classical model of the gold standard and the specie-flow mechanism and aim to show there that the Dornbusch IS-LM-PC approach, with ...