Globalization disrupted the seemingly solid construction emerged in the aftermath of WW II, called the international trade system. For over fifty years, the system grew constantly thanks to the increasing number of countries that joint it as well as to its ubiquitously-accepted rules. For better...

This paper provides an introduction to the special issue on international lending of last resort. Starting from debates about rescue operations and unconventional policies of major central banks in the contexts of the Global Financial Crisis and the European Debt Crisis, it draws attention to...

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey's question "In general, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" - and economic growth, established by empirical...

This paper tries to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the world oil prices from a multidimensional graphical perspective. The alternative multidimensional graphical is based on a new graphical method, the “Infinity Physical Space (I-Physical Space)”. The I-Physical Space can show the world...

This paper graphically demonstrates the patterns of economic recession from any epidemic in the world, i.e. the Wuhan COVID-19 contagious infectious disease. This can generate economic waves on different markets (countries or regions). This paper evaluates the way in which an economic recession...

The American economy changed rapidly in the last half-century. The National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) were designed before these changes started. They have stretched to accommodate new and growing service activities, but they are still organized for an industrial economy. It is hard to...

This paper shows how the inter-connections of the U.S. economy with five major economic regions in the world: Japan, China, ASEAN, Latin America, and the European Union can be captured through use of the inter-linkage coordinate space, and how such connections can be represented graphically with...

Finance has become more a problem than a solution to what the world most wants: socially inclusive growth. It has become a source of crises that threaten the development of the real economy. It has escaped accountability to democratic institutions and often helped, instead, to influence and...

Existing approaches to assess the economic impact of climate policies tend to overlook the financial sector and to focus only on direct effects of policies on the specific institutional sector they target, neglecting possible feedbacks between sectors, thus, underestimating the overall policy...