Interdisciplinary introduction to money and currencies -- Monetary sovereignty and history of international monetary law -- Fundamental legal problems of international monetary relations -- The international monetary constitution: the IMF articles of agreement - institutional design and decision-making -- The international monetary constitution: the IMF articles of agreement - substantive legal…
Introduction -- On the conventional nature of money -- The debate about the ethics of money pursuit -- Building stones for a new monetary world order -- Some further institutional and other practical aspects of the organization of the new monetary world order -- Concluding reflections.This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western…
The World of Two Monetary Regions: Basic Models -- Monetary Competition between Europe and America -- Monetary Cooperation between Europe and America -- Fiscal Competition between Europe and America -- Fiscal Cooperation between Europe and America -- The Anticipation of Policy Spillovers -- The World of Two Monetary Regions: Intermediate Models -- Zero Capital Mobility -- Imperfect Capital Mobi…
Integration, Growth and Cohesion in an Enlarged European Union: An Overview -- Integration, Growth and Inequalities -- Regional Inequalities in the European Union -- Regional Inequalities in the EU Accession Countries: Evolution and Challenges -- Total Factor Productivity and Economic Freedom - Implications for EU Enlargement -- What Determines Relative Sectoral Investment Patterns in EU Region…
Australian Household Expenditure Surveys -- Functional Forms for Engel Curves -- Problems in Non-Linear Engel Functions -- The Box-Cox Engel Function -- A Review of Personal Income Distribution -- Elasticity from Concentration Curves -- Estimating Increase in Consumer Demand -- Food Demand Analysis in Australia -- Demand for Transport and Communication -- Demand for Alcohol in Australia -- Cons…
Business Cycle Analysis -- Forecasting Quarterly German GDP at Monthly Intervals Using Monthly Ifo Business Conditions Data -- Real Wages and Business Cycle Asymmetries -- Evaluating the German Inventory Cycle Using Data from the Ifo Business Survey -- Do Ifo Indicators Help Explain Revisions in German Industrial Production? -- A Leading Indicator for the Dutch Economy -- Survey Activity of the…
Stimulating the Economy of Southeast Europe -- Setting the Stage for Stability and Progress in Southeast Europe -- The Scenario for EU Accession by Southeast European Countries -- Infrastructure Finance, Accession, and Related Policy Issues in Southeast Europe -- Making It Easier to Do Business in Southeast Europe -- Financial Regulation for Stability and Protection in Southeast Europe -- Finan…
This volume contains papers that provide an analysis of topics in the following areas: Agent Based Models, Non-linear Time Series Analysis, Financial Market Dynamics, Econo-physics, Deterministic Chaos, Macroeconomic Dynamics. Economics: Complex Windows, does not present contributions to the sterile debate as to the merits of the different grand, or potentially grand paradigms of economics. Rat…
Foreign Exchange Markets and Foreign Exchange Rates -- Exchange Rate Regimes and International Monetary Systems -- International Parity Conditions -- Balance of Payments and International Investment Positions -- Open Economy Macroeconomics -- The Mundell-Fleming Model -- The Flexible Price Monetary Model -- The Dornbusch Model -- Global Derivatives Markets -- Currency Futures -- Currency Option…
Representative Agent Models -- Basic Models and Elementary Algorithms -- Linear Quadratic and Linear Approximation Methods -- Parameterized Expectations -- Projection Methods -- Heterogeneous Agent Models -- Computation of Stationary Distributions -- Dynamics of the Distribution Function -- Overlapping Generations Models -- Tools -- Numerical Methods -- Various Other Tools.Modern business cycle…