A high share of foreign currency denomination of domestic public debt in rules out any recourse to inflation tax as an effective adjustment device. Anti- inflation policies based upon hard peg regimes may remove the exchange rate risk in the short run but - as pointed out by Argentina’s...

This paper deals with the evolution of automobile sector during the 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Countries from a double point of view. At first, we wonder about the applicability to the sector of Flying Geese (FG) model, theorised by Kaname Akmatsu in the 1930s to explain...

The paper develops a small open economy growth model with endogenous innovations, in the presence of environmental externalities. Building on the Grossman ad Helpman (1991) analytical framework of endogenous growth in open economies, pollution is introduced into the analysis in the form of a...

The economic collapse of 2007-10 is described as a debt deflation crisis triggered by a speculative bubble. The basic causes are traced back to the policy choices of the great capitalist powers governing globalization. Market liberalization and the TRIPS agreements work as a sort of global...

This paper examines the relationship between international production and exports for a number of countries. In the theoretical literature the relationship between direct investment and trade is not certain apriori: some works emphasize their complementarity, others their reciprocal...

Italian Abstract: All'interno dell'UE, la percezione che la convergenza sull'attuale insieme di regole non sia in grado di produrre convergenza sui risultati, o risultati generalmente migliori, ha aumentato la frammentazione socio-politica. Il risultato è stata una crescente domanda di...

Italian Abstract: Il funzionamento dei mercati finanziari richiede l’esistenza di infrastrutture per la conclusione degli scambi degli operatori. Queste devono essere sicure, efficienti e in grado di assicurare l’ordinato svolgimento delle operazioni che vi si effettuano. Lo Statuto del SEBC...

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...