Klappentext: Zur Globalisierung der Wirtschaft gehören auch die verstärkten Wechselwirkungen von Internationalen Finanzmärkten und Unternehmensfinanzierung. Hierzu das moderne Lehr- und Handbuch, das sich nicht nur an Wirtschaftsstudenten wendet.

In this paper, we examine how the presence of country insurance schemes affects policymakers'' incentives to undertake reforms. Such schemes (especially when made contingent on negative external shocks) are more likely to foster than to delay reform in crisis-prone volatile economies. The...

The report assesses IMF surveillance in the period leading up to the global financial and economic crisis and offers recommendations on how to strengthen the IMF's ability to discern risks and vulnerabilities in the future. Chapters discuss the unfolding of the crisis and IMF messages prior to...

This paper studies the prospects for sustainable growth and economic development in Gabon, in the face of a severe decline in its main source of income and growth, i.e. oil. A simple Computable General Equilibrium model is used to simulate the development of the non-oil economy under various...