This paper presents and evaluates the hypothesis that emerging countries specialized in commodity production are prone to experience non orthogonal commercial and financial shocks. Specifically, we investigate a set of global macroeconomic variables that, in principle, could simultaneously...

Although the international crisis was initially seen as an event limited to a particular segment of the financial systems of central economies, it rapidly escalated and became global through different transmission channels, raising doubts over the hypothesis of the so-called decoupling. Latin...

All severe crises have required a reformulation of the International Financial Architecture (IFA). The G20, abruptly turned into a discussion and action forum to cope with the crisis, focused its work on two areas: first, the coordination of the macroeconomic policies to come out of the crisis...

This article analyzes the role of trade and financial integration, productive specialization and monetary policies in the synchronization of business cycles in North America from a long-run perspective. For this purpose, we estimate seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) models and Granger...

This paper presents and evaluates the hypothesis that emerging countries specialized in commodity production are prone to experience non orthogonal commercial and financial shocks. Specifically, we investigate a set of global macroeconomic variables that, in principle, could simultaneously...

Spanish Abstract: En ese artículo se efectúa un análisis de la integración y dependencia de las políticas monetarias de la Unión Europea y, en concreto, de las políticas monetarias de la Unión Económica y Monetaria y de la zona no euro para el periodo comprendido entre Enero de 1999 y...

English abstract: This article provides an examination of the two last components of the CJEU's reasoning when assessing the compatibility of domestic tax rules with the TFEU's fundamental freedoms. It argues that contrary to what many authors sustain, justification and proportionality have to...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo proporciona un análisis en profundidad de una decisión del Tribunal Constitucional portugués sobre la asignación de los ingresos de los impuestos estatales a entidades infraestatales como los municipios portugueses

Spanish Abstract: Este capítulo de libro ofrece una revisión exhaustiva de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea en lo que respecta a la compatibilidad de las normas fiscales nacionales con la libertad de establecimiento. También proporciona un examen de la...

Spanish Abstract: El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) realizó en agosto de 2021 una nueva asignación de derechos especiales de giro (DEG), por un importe equivalente a 650 mm de dólares estadounidenses. Se trata de una cuantía significativa, que triplica los saldos actuales. En...