The book focuses on the recent experience of Latin America economies with designing, announcing, and implementing monetary policies with different internal and external anchors. Given the often dismal track record of monetary stabilization in Latin America, it deals primarily with the conditions...

Investigates the dynamic welfare effects of exposure to trade in a new trade model. This book uses a new trade model to explore which country-specific conditions give rise to horizontal or vertical multinational activity. It analyzes the role of goods trade and horizontal multinational firms in...

Sehr viele Unternehmen stehen heute im globalen Wettbewerb. Sie treffen ihre Entscheidungen im internationalen Kontext und sind damit von den Entwicklungen auf den Weltmärkten und den dahinter stehenden wirtschafts- und währungspolitischen Eingriffen unmittelbar betroffen.Ein wesentliches Ziel...

The achievement of financial stability is one of the most pressing issues today. This timely and innovative book provides an analytical framework to assess financial (in)stability as an equilibrium phenomenon compatible with the orderly functioning of a modern market economy. The authors...

Ein wesentliches Ziel des Buches ist es, das Geflecht der grenzüberschreitenden ökonomischen Einflusskanäle aufzuzeigen und zu erklären, "wie die Welt zusammenhängt". Damit verbunden, sollen die Ausführungen den Leser in die Lage versetzen, die Kernfragen der internationalen...

'Sara Hsu has written a useful survey of the accelerating pace of financial crises in our time, and a good review of the steps taken, with uncertain effect, to prevent another one. Highly recommended for all who were not paying attention, or who may enjoy the economist's refined capacity to...