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Debt, deficits, and exchange rates : essays on financial interdependence and development

Reisen, Helmut - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development … - 1994

Debt, Deficits and Exchange Rates presents recent work by Helmut Reisen on current international monetary problems in East Asia and Latin America. Written over the last four years, these papers are readily accessible and of immediate policy relevance. The first part is concerned with the debt...

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The Elgar companion to social economics

Davis, John Bryan (ed.); Dolfsma, Wilfred (ed.) - 2015 - 2nd ed

This comprehensive second edition of The Elgar Companion to Social Economics presents an overview of a dynamic and growing field in economics that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in...

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Beyond conventional economics : the limits of rational behaviour in political decision making

Hamlin, Alan P. (contributor); Eusepi, Giuseppe (contributor) - 2006

Beyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the inadequacies of the conventional economic approach to politics and a state-of-the-art view of new...

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Law, informal rules and economic performance : the case for common law

Pejovič, Svetozar - 2008

Capitalism has outperformed all other systems and maintained a positive growth rate since it began. Svetozar Pejovich makes the case within this book that a major reason for the success of capitalism lies in the efficiency-friendly incentives of its basic institutions, which continuously adjust...

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Austrian law and economics

Rizzo, Mario J. - 2011

The use of economics to study law was pioneered by the Austrian School of Economics. The nineteenth century founders of the school believed that economics could contribute to understanding the spontaneous development of common law as well as the nature of legal rights. For this insightful...

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Legal institutions and economic development

Parisi, Francesco (contributor); Cooter, Robert (contributor) - 2009

This insightful collection of classic papers explores the effects of various legal institutions and policies on economic development. The editors include analysis of the historical, current, and future conditions of numerous legal traditions and strategies, both nationally and globally. The...

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Anarchy, state and public choice

Stringham, Edward Peter (contributor) - 2005

The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. The younger economists are notably less pessimistic about...

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The Elgar companion to social economics

Davis, John Bryan (contributor); … - 2008

As this comprehensive Companion demonstrates, social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in the larger web of social and ethical...

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Reducing overreaction to central banks' disclosures : theory and experiment

Baeriswyl, Romain; Cornand, Camille - HAL - 2012

all participants but with ambiguity (partial transparency). We show that, in theory, both communication strategies are … reducing the degree of transparency. We run a laboratory experiment to test whether theoretical predictions hold in a game … either communication strategy. This paper, however, makes a case for partial transparency rather than partial publicity …

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An analysis of OTC interest rate derivatives transactions: implications for public reporting

Fleming, Michael; Jackson, John; Li, Ada; Sarkar, Asani; … - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

This paper examines the over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivatives (IRD) market in order to inform the design of post-trade price reporting. Our analysis uses a novel transaction-level data set to examine trading activity, the composition of market participants, levels of product...

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