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IMF essays from a time of crisis : the international financial system, stabil…
Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections on the issues raised. The IMF drew much criticism for some of its actions during Fischer's tenure, and he vigorously defends the …
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Disaggregating international regimes :a new approach to evaluation and compar…
"Evaluating the effectiveness of international regimes presents challenges that are both general and specific. What are the best methodologies for assessment within a governance area and do they enable comparison across areas? In this book, Olav Schram Stokke connects the general to the specific, developing new tools for assessing international regime effectiveness and then applying them to a p…
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Money, exchange rates, and output
Guillermo Calvo, who foresaw the financial crisis that followed the devaluation of Mexico's peso, has spent much of his career thinking beyond the conventional wisdom. In a quiet and understated way, Calvo has made seminal contributions to several major research areas in macroeconomics, particularly monetary policy, exchange rates, public debt, and stabilization in Latin America and post-commun…
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Money, interest, and policy :dynamic general equilibrium in a non-Ricardian w…
An important recent advance in macroeconomics is the development of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) macromodels. The use of DSGE models to study monetary policy, however, has led to paradoxical and puzzling results on a number of central monetary issues including price determinacy and liquidity effects. In Money, Interest, and Policy, Jean-Pascal Benassy argues that moving from th…
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Moral sentiments and material interests :the foundations of cooperation in ec…
Multidisciplinary research into cooperation and the implications for public policy, drawing on insights from economics, anthropology, biology, social psychology, and sociology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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NBER International seminar on macroeconomics 2005
This 20th edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual treats many questions at the cutting edge of macroeconomics that are central to current policy debates. The papers and discussions include an analysis of the differential between American and European unemployment rates, with the authors of the paper taking issue with Edward Prescott's view that higher European tax rates are responsible; a pro…
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Transient workspaces: Technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe
"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in th…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Borders as infrastructure :the technopolitics of border control
"Examines the European border-and the various actors and institutions involved behind the maintenance of a border--as an infrastructure, with particular attention to the refugee crisis of 2014-2016"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The power of experiments :decision making in a data-driven world
How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth: Selected Papers of Lionel W. McKenzie
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic thought in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumulation. This selection of his papers traces the development of his thinking in these three crucial areas.McKenzie's early academic life took him to Duke, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957…
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