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Alternatives to Fiscal Austerity in Spain
Weisbrot, Mark; Montecino, Juan Antonio - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010
This paper looks at the planned austerity measures in Spain, the rationale for the spending cuts and tax increases, likely outcomes for future debt-to-GDP ratios, and the probable results of alternative policies.
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The Monetary Origins of the Price Revolution' Before the Influx of Spanish-American Treasure: the South German Silver-Copper Trades, Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1...
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1999
This paper seeks to provide a new and chiefly monetary explanation for the origins of the sixteenth-century era of sustained inflation (c.1520 - c.1640) commonly known as the Price Revolution'; and in particular it provides an answer to the question: not, as traditionally posed, why did the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704807
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The Origins of the Modern Financial Revolution: Responses to Impediments from Church and State in Western Europe, 1200 - 1600
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
The basic thesis is that the modern 'financial revolution', usually dated to eighteenth century England, but far more properly to the sixteenth-century Netherlands, in terms of those institutions for both government finance (borrowing) and international finance (bills of exchange), owed its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704834
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ISSUING POLICIES IN CURRENCIES DENOMINATED IN EUROS AND EUROCENTS
Novak, Branko; Matić, Branko; Stjepanović, Slobodanka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Globalization and strengthening of integration processes have, among other things, also influenced some solutions relating to monetary sovereignty of particular countries. A great number of transition countries as well as some other underdeveloped countries are facing both inefficiency in their...
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"Options for China in a Dollar Standard World: A Sovereign Currency Approach"
Wray, L. Randall; Liu, Xinhua - Levy Economics Institute - 2014
This paper examines the fiscal and monetary policy options available to China as a sovereign currency-issuing nation operating in a dollar standard world. We first summarize a number of issues facing China, including the possibility of slower growth, global imbalances, and a number of domestic...
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Prospects for the UK Balance of Payments
Coutts, Ken; Rowthorn, Bob - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2009
other policies to improve UK trade performance, above all in manufacturing, but also in knowledge-intensive services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614641
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Uncovering Developing Countries’ Performance in Trade in Services
Saez, Sebastian; Grover, Arti - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 39, pp. 1-5
Services play a broad and strategic role in the economy. Trade in services has been expanding rapidly because … export activities. Trade in services, particularly business services, has become an element of export diversification for … many developing countries. Besides traditional activities such as tourism, activities such as health and information and …
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Debt, assets and imbalances in the euro area. An aggregate view
Nieuwenhuyze, Christophe Van - In: Revue de l'OFCE N° 127 (2013) 1, pp. 123-152
The recent developments in the euro area have shown how important it is that the various economic sectors pay attention to their financial positions. In the literature, the approach to analyse these positions is often partial, focusing on the government sector or just on the gross debt, as in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617524
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The Influence of Brain Drain Phenomenon on Tourism Sector
Dragolea, Larisa Loredana; Cotirlea, Denisa - In: International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories 1 (2011) 1, pp. 20-27
necessity of increasing tourism services’ quality. …This paper work deals with skilled migration and its repercussions on tourism sector, from a developing country … perspective. The authors sustain the idea that Brain Drain phenomenon represents a threat to Romania’s economic development …
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Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Assessment After 20 Years
Weisbrot, Mark; Lefebvre, Stephan; Sammut, Joseph - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region over the past 20 years, based on the available economic and social indicators, and with its own past economic performance. Among the results it finds that Mexico ranks 18th out of 20 Latin American...
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