In this paper we use data on French export prices at the disaggregated firm and product level to evaluate the effect of economic integration on price convergence. We use the European integration ‘experiment' and firm-level data on export prices to distinguish between two possible margins of...

This article reveals and studies the connections between Bentham's Defence of Usury (1787) and Saint-Amand Bazard (1791-1832), a founder of Saint-Simonianism. We first traces Bazard's exposure to Bentham through his unknown friendship with Bentham's publisher Etienne Dumont. After introducing in...

Hülsmann (2008) argues that the neglect of time preference changes on the demand side of the time market renders Rothbard's (1993) analysis incomplete in that it unduly portrays a rise in the volume of investment as a necessary counterpart to a fall in the pure interest rate. Focusing on the...

We show that an American monetary shock wields an influence, though limited, over the Lebanese output in accordance with the literature advances. However, as we are waiting for a stronger transmission of U.S. short-term rates to Lebanese short-term rates, we notice that this transmission is weak...

Compared with the U.S., the amplitude of the European monetary policy rate cycle is strikingly narrow. Is it an evidence of a less reactive ECB? This observation can certainly reflect the preferences and then the strategy of the ECB. But its greater inertia must also be assessed in the light of...

The paper states that, although Post Keynesian interest rules may be feasible and sustainable in favourable circumstances, there is a shared difficulty as for the setting of long-term interest rates in a context of strong uncertainty and shifting liquidity preference. According to Keynes theory...

Las experiencias en cooperación en el ámbito del turismo y el desarrollo, fruto de la dilatada colaboración entre investigadores españoles y latinoamericanos, ha sido importante. Así lo constatan el número de proyectos financiados por el Programa de Cooperación Interuniversitario de la...

Este trabajo propone una hoja de ruta para ir implementando un sistema de evaluación en la CSS. Identifica aspectos diferenciales respecto a la Cooperación Norte-Sur y cómo éstos afectan a los criterios de evaluación, especialmente la horizontalidad, reciprocidad, responsabilidad...

Durante la última década en América Latina se han desarrollado experiencias para promover presupuestos con enfoque de género en más de 17 países desde una gran diversidad de instancias promotoras, ámbitos de actuación y estrategias de aproximación. La gran mayoría de las experiencias...