This volume consists of papers presented at Second Coonference in Economics co-organized by Izmir Univeristy of Economics and the State University of New York at Cortland on June 8-9, 2007 in Cortland, New York. The theme of the conference is "Globalization and Its Discontents". Papers presented...

This volume consists of papers presented at Third Coonference in Economics co-organized by Izmir Univeristy of Economics and the State University of New York at Cortland on May 1-2, 2008 in Ýzmir. The theme of the conference is "Emerging Economic Issues in a Globalizing World". Papers presented...

This volume consists of papers presented at First Coonference in Economics co-organized by Izmir Univeristy of Economics and the State University of New York at Cortland on May 24-25, 2006 in Izmir, Turkey. The theme of the conference is "Human and Economic Resources".Human and Economic...

Carbon budgets are a useful way to frame the climate mitigation challenge and much easier to agree upon than the allocation of emissions. We propose a mechanism with countries agreeing on the global carbon budget, while the decision to emit is decentralized at the country level. The revenue is...

More than forty states worldwide currently pursue explicit political strategies to expand and promote their bioeconomies. This paper assesses these strategies in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our theoretical framework differentiates between four pathways of...

The core issue raised in Globalization and its Discontents, what is the critical evaluation of the IMF's role in the financial crisis in Asian countries and modern Russian transition. The Asian crisis began in July 1997 when the Thai devaluation came to their impact throughout Southeast Asia, as...

The United States (US) extracts a large macroeconomic premium from foreigners: she enjoys higher consumption and GDP growths on average relative to the rest of the world (ROW). This is earned even though the US is relatively insulated against global consumption and GDP risks, challenging a...

Which region(s) will come to dominate the world economy? This paper develops the Global Gaidar Model (GGM), a 17-region, 2-skills, 100-period OLG model, to address this and other questions. The model is carefully calibrated to 2017 UN demographic and IMF fiscal data. Productivity growth and its...