The present essay, a chapter of a more extensive work on international domination in world economy, draws on James Mill's The History of the British India, which is a milestone work in this field and the basis of all posterior theories in order to develop an analytic framework for this subject

Lesotho and other least developed African countries responded impressively to the preferences they were granted under the African Growth and Opportunities Act with a rapid increase in their clothing exports to the US. But this performance has not been accompanied by some of the more dynamic...

How do the number of trade partners and the concentration of trade among partners affect the economic growth of a country? We refer to these characteristics as the structure of trade, and explore this question empirically in this study. We find that the structure of trade, independently of the...

Spain has experienced many financial crises through its history. These financial crises have varied origins. However, they do have common threads. The current recession and subsequent debt crisis follow the same pattern. The fiscal and monetary policies of the Spanish government have played a...

This paper has a two-fold orientation; firstly, it examines the linkages and the time-series properties of a set of nominal and real macroeconomic variables in Greece, under different exchange rate systems and varying fiscal regimes. Secondly, it makes an effort to evaluate some macro-governance...

Many empirical studies have been done to investigate whether trade is influenced by exchange rate volatility. Conventional wisdom is that increased exchange rate volatility inhibits the growth of foreign trade.This MRA extends by 10 studies and 100 observations Pugh's and Coric (2008) meta...

Comprehensive reform of Local self-government presents one of the most important questions in the process of accession to the European Union. In ongoing discussions about effectiveness of the public sector it is almost impossible to avoid the issue of rational territorial organization of...

This paper examines the role of electricity production from biomass with and without carbon capture and storage in sustaining low CO2 emission pathways to 2100. It quantifies the effect of the availability of biomass resources and technologies within a general equilibrium framework. Biomass-fed...

We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how market size and geography (the market sizes of and bilateral economic distances to trading partners) affect both a firm's exported product range and its exported product mix across market destinations (the distribution of...

The current financial crisis has made it abundantly clear that business cycle modeling can no longer abstract from financial factors. It is also clear that the current standard approach of modeling labor markets without explicit unemployment has its limitations. We extend what is becoming the...