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Are financial markets embedded in economics rather than society? A critical review of the performativity thesis

Henriksen, Lasse Folke - 2009

have it). Coming from actor-network theory, the literature contributes conceptually to an extended ontology of markets and …) Divide between finance the-ory and financial markets. However, the review finds that the literature is marked by a … methodological bias. The lit-erature works with the microsociological methods of actor-network theory and thus tends to deliver …

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International financial institutions and the provision of international goods

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - In: EIB Papers 3 (1998) 2, pp. 116-132

address these questions from the perspective of the theory of international public goods, which is a powerful way to organise …

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Does technical progress create unemployment?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - In: EIB Papers 3 (1998) 1, pp. 55-64

Political opposition to technical change is not a new phenomenon; at the plant level, organised labour has often resisted implementation of new technologies, as is exemplified by the Luddites in the nineteenth century, the dockers' strikes against the use of containers in Britain in the early...

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Agglomeration and regional imbalance: Why? And is it bad?

Thisse, Jacques-François - In: EIB Papers 5 (2000) 2, pp. 47-67

have declined sufficiently, to wait for the predictions of the neo-classical theory of factor mobility to materialise …. According to this theory, production factors respond to market disequilibrium by moving from regions in which they are abundant …

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Convergence across countries and regions: Theory and empirics

de la Fuente, Angel - In: EIB Papers 5 (2000) 2, pp. 25-45

In the last decade or so, growth has come to occupy an increasingly important place among the interests of macroeconomists, displacing to some extent their previous preoccupation with the business cycle. This change is largely due to two factors. The first one is the realisation that, in terms...

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Contributing to regional development through project selection

Rossert, Bertrand - In: EIB Papers 5 (2000) 1, pp. 137-148

The EIB finances a large number of projects in support of EU policies including social and economic cohesion, that is to reduce regional disparities in income. Since 1995, the EIB Evaluation Department has looked at over 100 projects where the Bank has been involved, normally along the lines of...

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ICT clusters in development: Theory and evidence

Quah, Danny - In: EIB Papers 6 (2001) 1, pp. 85-100

Many observers suspect economic growth to be inextricably associated with inequality: growth alone need not bring about unalloyed, uncontroversial increases in economic well-being because rising average income levels might come together with increasing disparities between rich and poor....

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Exchange rate regimes and financial vulnerability

De Grauwe, Paul; Grimaldi, Marianna - In: EIB Papers 7 (2002) 2, pp. 33-48

The financial crises of the 1990s have created the perception that one of the fundamental reasons for the occurrence of such crises is to be found in the fact that exchange rates were pegged for too long. These pegged exchange rates inevitably invited speculative attacks in the foreign exchange...

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How expensive are cost savings? On the economics of public-private partnerships

Välilä, Timo - In: EIB Papers 10 (2005) 1, pp. 95-119

Public-private partnerships have emerged as an alternative to traditional public procurement in financing and providing infrastructure services. This paper considers public-private partnerships as another form of public sector intervention in the economy. It analyses the microeconomic pros and...

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Public-private partnerships: Contract design and risk transfer

Dewatripont, Mathias; Legros, Patrick - In: EIB Papers 10 (2005) 1, pp. 120-145

This paper critically assesses the implications of contract design and risk transfer on the provision of public services under public-private partnerships (PPPs). Two results stand out. First, the alleged strength of PPPs in delivering infrastructure projects on budget more often than...

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