In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...

<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> Andalucía, región periférica del sur de Europa, presenta una marcada especialización en la producción de aceite de oliva virgen. Este artículo analiza la dinámica exportadora protagonizada por las empresas oleícolas andaluzas durante la última década, marcada por...

We estimate a time-varying regression model to study the relationship between returns in the Shanghai and New York stock markets, with possible inclusion of lagged returns. The parameters of the regressions reveal that the effect of the current stock return for New York on that for Shanghai...

In the last decades, in some states, wealth taxes have been reconsidered. Amid the problems outlined, our paper aims to highlight states options on wealth taxes and to analyze the impact of reforms on wealth taxes in recent decades, in the member states of the European Union and the U.S.,...

This presentation, from the RBD's Workshop on Methodologies for Regional Projects and Programs, summarizes the current context of regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. It includes the new drivers for integration and global and regional integration gaps which the region must...