The current global financial non-system is marked by instability. In the absence of global solutions, a series of regional arrangements of monetary cooperation have been emerging to cope with such instability. The paper focuses on regional payment systems as an initial step of regional monetary...

The current global financial "non-system" is marked by instability. In the absence of global solutions, a series of regional arrangements of monetary cooperation have been emerging to cope with such instability. The paper focuses on regional payment systems as an initial step of regional...

The paper analyses how the IMF brought its experience gained in emerging market sovereign debt crises in the troika’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in the 2000s. We examine subsequent changes in the...

Lateinamerikas Wirtschaft stagniert. Die politische Unsicherheit in den wichtigsten Ökonomien, der schwächere Welthandel und die Handelsstreitigkeiten drücken die Wachstumsprognosen. Die Länder verlieren weiter den Anschluss im weltweiten Vergleich. Entwickelt sich Südamerika vom...