1. Introduction : re-writing the "official history" of the Korean economy and financial crises in emerging markets -- 2. The five conventional wisdoms and the five financial theorems on the global financial market -- 3. The global financial crisis and the Korean financial crisis -- 4. Emerging...

1. Introduction to the book / Rania Antonopoulos -- 2. Financial crisis and their gendered employment impact : emerging trends and past experiences / Jayati Ghosh -- 3. Investing in care in the midst of a crisis : a strategy for effective and equitable job creation in the United States / Rania...

1. The postmodern impact assessment and problems of the mind -- 2. Five guiding principles for postmodern impact assessments -- 3. The first principle : establish the impact horizon -- 4. The second principle : align impact measures to core values -- 5. The third principle : consider and align...

The global economic crisis and governance of human mobility / Bimal Ghosh -- 2. Migration and development linkages re-examined in the context of the global economic crisis / S. Irudaya Rajan and B. A. Prakash -- 3. The global economic crisis and impact on migration from South-Asian and...

1. New challenges for Asian financial integration / Yiping Huang and Shiro Armstrong -- 2. The global financial market crisis : policy lessons for Asia / Donald Hanna -- 3. International division of labour and global imbalances / Jianwei Xu and Yang Yao -- 4. Measuring systemic risk :...

1. The global financial crisis : the great recession and the recovery -- 2. Asian economic architecture before the global financial crisis -- 3. Global financial market turbulence and its impact on the Asian economy -- 4. The Asian economy spearheading the global recovery -- 5. A leadership role...

The paper empirically assesses the impact of foreign aid on the change in economic freedom, which is closely related to the quality of regulations. We build on a relatively large panel of 77 developing countries and examine the period 2002 to 2012 using different econometric methods, including...

This paper estimates the impact of university teachers on their students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence...

The paper explicates the issues raised for macroprudential regulation in a global economy with high capital mobility. The study surveys the recent literature and aims to translate the academic rationale for such policies, in which market imperfections lead to external effects that require policy...

Will smart machines do to humans what the internal combustion engine did to horses – make them obsolete? If so, can putting people out of work or, at least, good work leave them unable to buy what smart machines produce? Our model's answer is yes. Over time and under the right conditions,...