Professor Eichengreen has published widely on the international monetary and financial system. His books include Capital Flows and Crises, and Financial Crises and What to Do About Them. Data shows that Emerging Asia relies less on bonds and more on banks than developed countries. What costs, if...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage—in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Wilhelm Röpkes Vorstellungen einer integrierten Weltwirtschaft -- 3. Röpkes Sicht des Europäischen Integrationsprozesses -- 4. Röpkes Europaentwurf im Vergleich mit ausgewählten Ökonomen seiner Zeit -- 5. Europa aus...

This paper attempts to evaluate whether the PTA scheme has been successful in liberalizing intra-ASEAN trade through the new tariff reductions. More specfically, it stimulates the maximum potential trade creation effects within ASEAN of the 20% across-the-board tariff reduction on all items with...

As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been...

Since the 1990s, regional organizations of the United Nations and international financial institutions have adopted a new dynamic of transnational integration, within the framework of the regionalization process of globalization. In place of the growth triangles of the 1970s, a strategy based on...