intervention currency in the world. The dollar became such an important currency after the shift from the British pound which …, during the gold standard, was the world's reserve currency until the first decades of the XX century. The dollar retained its … reserve currency in the world. Until now the Eurosystem remains somewhat powerless to manage successfully the above …

This study divides the world into currency zones according to the co-movement of each currency with the key currencies … dollar zone. In such a world, the rise of another large economy poses the question not of relative size but rather of re …

. Based on these findings, we discuss implications for fiscal policy and publicly-provided disaster insurance. Our policy … an increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters …

the impact of natural disasters on the movement of people between countries. It employs spatially mapped geographic data … on the physical intensity of natural disasters. Chapter 3 zooms in on the local growth effects of natural disasters and …