Drawing on a mix of economic history, network science, and sociology, "Currency Wars" provides a rich understanding of the increasing threats to U.S. national security, from dollar devaluation to collapse in the European periphery, failed states in Africa, Chinese neomercantilism, Russian...

We study the intraday interest rate in a CCP-based GC pooling repo market and its key determinants. Since collateral used in this market is identical to collateral eligible for the daylight overdraft facility of the Eurosystem, any intraday rate in this market cannot be a result of collateral...

Contents: 1. Introduction / Gerald Epstein -- Part I Capital flows and financial crises -- 2. Financial crises among emerging and developing economies in the modern era: a brief history and some stylized themes / Elissa Braunstein -- 3. Too good to be true: what the Icelandic crisis revealed...