Exchange rate regimes

choices and consequences

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency ...

Economics of exchange rates

In the last few decades exchange rate economics has seen a number of developments, with substantial contributions to both the theory and empirics of exchange rate determination. Important developments in econometrics and the increasingly large availability of high-quality data have also been responsible for stimulating ...

The behaviour of fiscal authorities

stabilisation, growth and institutions

Description: The behaviour of fiscal authorities and its interplay with budgetary institutions is a recent and increasingly important area of economic research, heightened by the move to single currency in Europe. This volume provides a systematic analysis of issues including the determinants of fiscal retrenchment ...

Money and Politics

That large financial contributions distort American politics and American democracy is an idea that stands as a truism in political debate. It has fired reform movements; it has inspired round after round of efforts to limit who can give to candidates and parties, how much ...

Reformas modélicas en política económica

(inflación/recesión)

La fragilidad financiera del capitalismo

La fragilidad financiera es uno de os problemas endémicos del Capitalismo. Un problema que que no parece encontrarse en vías de solución como lo prueban las crisis bursátiles, cambiarias y bancarias de la última década, algunas de las cuales son objeto de análisis del presente ...

The politics of money

towards sustainability and economic democracy

The book opens with a review of the role of money in currnt society, an overview of the history of money creations and a critique of the main theoretical developements in economic thought. Alternative perspectives on money are then presented through a review of a ...

Monetary transmission in diverse economies

This 2002 volume explains different aspects of the transmission mechanism. It scrutinizes the relevance of practical issues such as asymmetries, recent structural changes and estimation errors using data on the US, Euro area and developing countries. Also focuses on modelling crucial aspects including productivity, the ...

Moving money

banking and finance in the industrialized world

Daniel Verdier's book is an analysis of how politics influences financial systems. He shows that differing national political institutions have led to different regulatory policies and thus different financial structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of financial politics and ...

Patents, citations, and innovations

a window of the knowledge economy

Política y economía regional

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Political economy

the contest of economic ideas

Political Economy looks at the competing currents of political economic thought. INDICE ECONOMIC PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS: The current context . ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: What's so Special about Capitalism . BACK TO BASICS: Classical Political Economy . THE CRITQUE OF CAPITALISM: Marxist Economics . THE IDEOLOGY OF THE MARKET: Neoclassical ...

Too sensational

on the choice of exchange rate regimes

Most of the literature on exchange rate regimes has focused on the developed countries. Since the recent crises in emerging markets, however, attention has shifted to the choice of exchange rate regimes for developing countries, especially those that are more integrated into the world capital ...

La evolución económica de las provincias españolas (1955-1998)

Este segundo volumen dedica su atención al estudio de la desigualdad y convergencia entre las diferentes provincias españolas en el periodo considerado, lo que realiza a través de una rigurosa metodología y con amplia base cuantitativa, complementando así el análisis realizado en el primer volumen ...

Monetary regimes of the twentieth century

Abstract economic theory may be timeless and potentially universal in its application, but macroeconomics has to be seen in its historical context. The nature of the policy regime, the behaviour of the economy and the beliefs of professional economists all interact, and influence each other ...

Transition and institutions

the experience of gradual and late reformers

This volume reviews the role of initial structural and institutional conditions and their subsequent development during the course of the transition and examines economies which are in the very early phases of the reform process.

The modern VAT

Incentives and political economy

Incentives and Political Economy constructs a normative approach to constitutional design using recent developments in contract theory. It treats political economy as the study of the incentive problems created by the delegation of economic policy to self-interested politicians. Politicians are treated successively as informed supervisors ...

Labour unions, public policy and economic growth

List of figures; Preface; Overview; 1. Basic concept of game theory; 2. Collective bargaining without investment; 3. The use of corrective taxes and subsidies; 4. Taxation and production efficiency; 5. Credibility in collective bargaining; 6. Monopoly unions and sluggish investment; 7. Ordinary wages verses profit-sharing ...

Monetary economics

This textbook seeks to break new ground in developing an integrated and comprehensive overview of advanced monetary economics. It achieves this by integrating the presentation of monetary theory with its heritage, empirical formulations and their empirical tests. Rather than confine the coverage to the demand ...