This paper looks at the recent debt crisis in Greece and argues that the crisis exemplifies a sequence of systematic mistakes made by International Financial Institutions, mistakes whose consequences had been clearly anticipated at the time of the first bail-out and could have been avoided. I...

This paper looks at the recent debt crisis in Greece and argues that the crisis exemplifies a sequence of systematic mistakes made by International Financial Institutions, mistakes whose consequences had been clearly anticipated at the time of the first bail-out and could have been avoided. I...

Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro prende in considerazione la recente crisi di debito della Grecia e sostiene che questa mostra una serie di errori sistematici fatto dalle Istituzioni Finanziarie Internazionali, le cui conseguenze erano state chiaramente anticipate sin dal primo intervento di...

This work attempts to quantify the size of the adjustment of the United States external imbalance which can arise from a depreciation of the dollar, an adjustment of the Government�s budget in the United States and an acceleration of the technological process in other main advanced...

This paper combines the literature on financial crises with that on international immigrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers� remittances can help reduce the probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and...

Italian Abstract: L'articolo introduce al presente numero, rivedendone i contenuti e ponendoli nel contesto dell'attuale crisi europea.Evidenzia brevemente la rilevanza dell'articolo pubblicato da Josef Steindl in questo numero per la prima volta, così come l'articolo di Nina Shapiro...

Due rapporti della Direzione per gli affari economici e finanziari della Commissione europea (European Commission 2009, 2010) forniscono un quadro ben documentato e condivisibile della genesi degli squilibri europei, sia commerciali che nei bilanci interni dei settori pubblici e privati, nel...