Similar Search Results

Narrow search

Assessing spill-over effects of US monetary policy and macroeconomic announcements on financial markets in Argentina

Hayo, Bernd; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2008

helps to reduce money market volatility during the financial crisis in Argentina. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265886

Weighing up the Credit-to-GDP gap: A cautionary note

Karagedikli, Özer; Rummel, Ole J. - 2020

It has been argued that credit-to-GDP gaps (credit gap) are useful early warning indicators for banking crises. In addition, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has also advocated using these gaps - estimated using a one-sided Hodrick-Prescott filter with a smoothing parameter of 400,000...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208408

The heterogeneity of default costs: Evidence from recent sovereign debt crises

Jorra, Markus - 2011

This paper examines the costs of recent sovereign defaults using synthetic control methods, a novel econometric technique based on comparative case studies. Evidence on the effects of debt crises is thus presented on a case-by-case basis, uncovering large variations in country-specific...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286413

Women and economics: New historical perspectives

Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo; Forget, Evelyn L.; … - 2022

This essay is the introduction to the History of Political Economy Annual Supplement on 'Women and Economics: New … Historical Perspectives.' We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the … mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886575

Modern political economy: A brief history and some applications

Jakee, Keith - 2021

This article - designed to give readers unfamiliar with public choice a historical overview and flavor for the kinds of problems considered - is divided into three main sections, "historical origins," the "modern founders of MPE," and a brief description of some "current issues" studied by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662302

Economic page turners

Frank, Björn - 2011

economics, but also about writing techniques. Their authors know how to build up suspense, i.e., they make readers want to know …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286377

First principles, fallibilism, and economics

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017

The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the … first principles as the basis for deductivist approaches to economics and the widespread belief that economics is an … attempts to define economics and its method from John Stuart Mill's economics as the science of wealth through Lionel Robbins …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613817

Ricardian inference: Charles S. Peirce, economics, and scientific method

Hoover, Kevin D.; Wible, James R. - 2017

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761426