1. Financial Integration, Bank Competition and Intra-Eurozone Foreign Direct Investment -- 2. Export Margins, Employment Skills and Financial Conditions: Stylized Facts from Greek Exporters -- 3. Why a revival of Greek manufacturing is a prerequisite to ensure a prosperous future for the country...

This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics. They focus on the role of the central banks in the debate on how to come to terms with the long-term decline in productivity growth, insufficient aggregate demand, high...

1. Introduction -- 2. European money and culture before 1914 -- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar -- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under...

A Short Post-communist Economic History of Emerging Europe -- Pre-crisis Central Banking -- Bubbles Everywhere (the 2000s)Under the Clouds of the Subprime Crisis (July 2007 – September 2008)The Lehman Tsunami (September – October 2008) -- The “Rescue Team” and Rescue Package (October –...

This article compares the Asian and Latin American experiences with monetary cooperation. It is argued that in the latter such cooperation has hardly progressed, due to low degree of regional integration, the recurrent use of multilateral institutional resources to deal with external shocks and...