"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. . . . Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should inform the debate on...

"The business surveys of the ifo Institute (short for ""Information und Forschung"") are internationally renowned. Every month close to 7,000 enterprises are questioned on their short-term planning and their appraisals of the actual and future business situation. The confidence indicator...

Prognosen – einige grundsätzliche Überlegungen -- Daten als Grundlage der Analyse -- Der Konjunkturzyklus: Messung und Datierung -- Konjunkturindikatoren -- Zeitreihenmodelle -- Prognosen mit Strukturmodellen -- Intuitive Prognoseverfahren. - Gemischte Prognoseverfahren. -...

This book analyzes key international monetary issues from a macro-foundations perspective. It proposes novel frameworks to interpret macroeconomic and financial linkages for globally integrated economies, examining global imbalances, exchange rates, interest rates, international capital flows,...

Will China eventually be able to eliminate its socialist animal spirits? Highlighting the importance of China's investment booms and busts for both the Chinese and the world economy, Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics describes the origins and evolution of the investment cycle during...

Wachsende ökonomische Instabilität und zunehmende staatliche Stabilisierung kennzeichnen die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Marktwirtschaft seit der großen Weltwirtschaftskrise des vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch verfolgt den Weg der Krisen und der staatlichen Maßnahmen zu ihrer...

This book explores what happened in the transition economies of China, Vietnam and Myanmar from both macro and micro perspectives, and questions whether the governments of these countries are capable of implementing effective reform and transformation

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...

Wirtschaftspolitik und Krisenpolitik -- Ankurbelung Durch Kreditausweitung -- Arbeitsbeschaffung Durch Investitionen -- Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit -- Senkung der Produktionskosten -- Erleichterung der Schuldenlast -- Innenkolonisation und Naturalwirtschaft -- Autarkisierung -- Abbau der...

Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach. The first four chapters introduce the reader to the dynamics of fiscal and monetary policy...