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The economic diplomacy of sovereign debt crises: Latin America and the euro-zone compared

Bayne, Nicholas - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 4-18

This article compares today's euro-zone debt crisis, in terms of economic diplomacy, with the earlier crisis in Latin America. Four features served to reconcile the tensions and resolve the 1980s' crisis. A balance was preserved between debtor countries and creditor banks. Though initially...

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Return and volatility spillovers: evidence from Indian exchange rates

Kumar, Manish - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 4, pp. 371-387

This study examines the nature of interdependence, and return and volatility spillovers, for three Indian exchange rates: US dollar (USD), Euro and British Pound. We use the spillover index methodology of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) to analyse precisely and independently the returns and volatility...

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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?

Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640

consideration, we use the balanced panel of 14 EU countries from 1995 to 2006 in order to provide some evidences that could support …

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Global economic crisis 2007â€“2010: Is it really so recent? Implications for the future from the lessons of economic history

Salavrakos, Ioannis-Dionysios - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 655-683

international competition from EU, Japan, and later from China and the other emerging economies had played a pivotal role in the …-term harmful effects for the global economy. In addition, the inability of the EU to establish an optimal currency area has …

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Ten years of European Monetary Union: What's gone right and What's gone wrong

Kenen, Peter B. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 1/2, pp. 6-9

In 1991, the European Union undertook to form a full-fledged monetary union. It established the European Monetary Union with a European Central Bank (ECB) at its apex and a mandate to pursue price stability. The European regime differs from the US Federal Reserve System, which must pursue high...

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Looking backwards and living forwards: the EMU and the history of monetary unions in Western Europe

Barbezat, Daniel - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 1/2, pp. 10-30

European monetary history prior to 1950 presents many attempts at international monetary coordination, but none were as bold and as far reaching as the European Monetary Union envisioned in the Delors Report of 1989 and enacted through the 1991 Treaty on the European Union in Maastricht. This...

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Risk, genetically modified food and the US/EU divide

Toke, Dave - In: International Journal of Green Economics 1 (2007) 3/4, pp. 407-418

The Genetically Modified (GM) food and crops issue illustrates some key contemporary differences between the EU and the … environmentalists since 1990 on a range of issues in the EU, compared to the USA. Beck's 'Risk Society' theory has general resonance … representative of his 'analysis' of archetypal 'reflexive modernisation', while EU policies (on GM food at least) represent more self …

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The sovereign debt crisis - a transdisciplinary approach

Pilkington, Marc - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 369-397

We have chosen to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to debt, leading to a transdisciplinary analysis of sovereign debt. Disciplinary fields as varied as logic, accounting, finance, psychology, geopolitics, economics, statistics, ethics, rhetoric and political discourse analysis are mobilised...

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S-Curve dynamics of trade between Egypt and her two largest partners

Bahmani-Oskooee, Mohsen; Hosny, Amr Sadek - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 5 (2012) 2, pp. 142-152

(Egypt and EU). Out of a total of 95 industries, we were able to support the S-Curve hypothesis in 20, mostly small …

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Linking the Northeast states of the US mitigation program to the EU Emission Trading Scheme—Implications and costs

Persson, T. - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 14 (2009) 5, pp. 399-408

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