standard measure of the size of a country’s economy was invented, how it has changed over the decades, and what its strengths …Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent … overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world …

As multilateral development banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social … novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy towards MDBs, combining disruptive and conventional tactics. Systematically … combination of 1) declining US hegemony, 2) counter-mobilization by China and 3) movement cooptation by the World Bank bureaucracy …

the International Accounting Standards Board will be studied. Setting financial reporting standards in the United States … International Financial Reporting Standards, maintained by the International Accounting Standards Board. After detailing the … some of the difficulties that could be faced by the United States if the transition proposed by the Securities and Exchange …

This paper develops a model of the impact of monetary policy on the price level under a gold standard. The model is … particular, it will be demonstrated that under a gold standard, monetary policy can have a permanent effect on the price level …. The model is then used to evaluate the nineteenth century debate between proponents of the Banking School and the Currency …