Product Description: At the beginning of the 1990's unemployment grew in all industrialized countries: the essays in this collection focus on the causes and cures of this worrying phenomenon. The volume starts by analysing the disparities in the different national experiences and then focusing on European unemployment...read more

Product Description: Antitrust, Regulation and Competition brings together a group of well-known European and American academics to examine antitrust policies and competitive behaviour on a wide variety of topical cases and critical markets. Taking both a theoretical and applied perspective, the contributors examine issues such as entry and market concentration, auctions, technological innovation, privatization and the role of public firms, market transparency, the supply of product quality and multinational firms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ever since Keynes challenged the classical approach to macroeconomics, the economics profession has been engaged in a prolonged debate over the appropriate roles of monetary, fiscal, debt and exchange rate policies in economic management...read more

In the post-war period, spending on social security, health and education has grown continuously in the leading industrialized countries. The considerable size of this spending as a percentage of GDP together with the ageing population raise doubts on the sustainability of welfare spending. These doubts have been accompanied in recent years by an increasing awareness of the allocational inefficiencies and the distributive inequalities caused by the provision of some social services. The welfare state should therefore be reconstructed not only through readjustment of the social security system but also a change in unemployment benefits and the taxation of workers to avoid the perverse spiral that may be produced in the future by cuts in welfare benefits, growing unemployment and the need to further reduce the social security services.

Product Description: This volume analyzes in great detail the problem of information and risk management. Both topics are a central issue in current financial and monetary economic literature. Several recent theoretical and empirical contributions consider asymmetric information between investors and financiers as a major determinant of financial risk...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The single market has been operating in Europe since 1 January 1993 but the twelve national fiscal systems remain independent. How will this be resolved? Harmonization and coordination or fiscal competition with distortions in the allocation of resources, in factor use, in localization of activities...read more

Product Description: Mario Baldassarri and Francesco Busato evaluate the impact produced by a new cycle of structural reforms over European Union economies. The structural reforms concern the size and the composition of government expenditure, the good and services markets, and the labour market...read more

Product Description: The US twin deficit, Western European economic integration, Eastern Europe's transition towards a market economy, the debt burden of the Less Developed Countries, the growing and deepening discrimination against the rest of the world by new homogeneous areas such as the North America free trade area, the new Europe, and Japan are the issues at the heart of global disequilibrium in the world economy...read more

Product Description: Including contributions from some of the world's most respected economists, How to Reduce Unemployment in Europe examines the performance of the European labour market compared to the US market and to the countries in Europe that might represent a best and worst practice, and offers 'An Economists' Manifesto for Employment'...read more

Product Description: During the last few decades, economic development in Italy has been tumultuous and, in many ways, contradictory. It was during these years that Italy became a strong and modern industrial force and ranked among the six most developed countries in the world...read more

Product Description: Comprises 14 contributions which examine the importance and impact of institutions in understanding economic behavior and performance. Some of the contributions apply new developments in game theory to topical case-studies including corruption, central bank independence, globalization, and other issues in economic governance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The proceedings of an otherwise unidentified meeting (although the volume is published in association with Rivista di Politica Economica , SIPI, Rome, and CEIS, University "Tor Vergata," Rome). Addressing the questions of why some countries have grown much faster than others in the postwar period and over a longer timespan, and what a country can do to improve its growth and performance, the contributions focus in particular on two areas: the role that globalization of certain markets has played in the convergence of productivity levels over much of the world in recent decades, and the effect on economic growth of a country's membership in a specific economic area...read more

Product Description: The subject of this book is the kind of economic interaction and interdependence that has arisen among nations in the contemporary world economy, the nature and significance of the pattern of trade balances that have resulted from them, and the question of what, if anything, should be done by national governments about that pattern...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays is concerned with three major and debated topics in international economics, namely interdependence between countries, real and financial integration, and the conflicting relations between industrialized (North) and developing countries (South)...read more

Product Description: Seven contributions analyze the transitional state of the world economy, suggesting it is at a crossroad. The authors focus first on the problem of international financial stability and the relationship between national economic policies, and then on the European monetary union within the context of the international monetary system...read more

This text holds that we are now living in a period of disillusion in the ability of the economic policy to stabilize the economy. It questions the idea that a boom must always be followed by a depression and provides analysis and business data on the business cycle.

Product Description: In recent decades, the Italian "phenomenon" has often come under close scrutiny as specialists of the field attempted to understand the workings of an economic system perceived as being somewhat strange: foreign commentators in particular incessantly wavered between forewarnings of inevitable crises and decline, and resounding praise of unexpected and surprising success...read more

Since the early 1970s the Italian economy has been moving towards an irreversible real and financial crisis. Paradoxically, the conditions engendered by the currency crisis and recession may also provide the basis for a new economic policy strategy, which could build a mere 'economic miracle!' A series of miraculously concurrent circumstances make it possible for Italy to make a great leap forward, which could take it from the tail-end of the industrialised countries to one of the leaders. This may imply sacrifices that will be more than compensated by improvements for those that are currently 'outside' the system and the unemployed, particularly the youth. This leap will not only bring the unemployed back into society but should also cure what have been the chronic ills of the Italian economy: high and variable inflation, imbalanced national accounts and foreign account difficulties.

Product Description: This book contributes to the debate between monetarist, Keynesian and supply-side views of economic theory, and analyzes and compares the empirical experiences of the economic policies of the six major industrialized countries of the 1980s...read more

Product Description: This collection of papers proposes to trace the professional and personal fortunes of Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924), an eminent and controversial Italian economist from the liberalist culture which in the early twentieth century perceived the shortcomings and dangers of the nascent monopolist concentrations...read more

Product Description: The New Welfare brings together a group of leading scholars to examine issues relating to unemployment and social security in Europe, focusing on how to promote employment and how to reform social security. The crucial issue of the financing of public pension systems is also addressed, including an examination of the politically difficult solution of a more fully-funded system...read more

The economic literature regarding firm behaviour, market structure and their interactions within the economic system has greatly developed during recent years. Furthermore, there is no doubt that the radical changes which have occurred in the international economic picture, regarding the system of relative prices, technologies, organization, the availability of new materials and new production factors, the eruption of new production entities, the progressive 'globalization' of markets have all brought about 'genetic' changes in the way firms behave, in the structure and forms of markets and, consequently, in the economic systems themselves at a national level.In such a complex picture, it is difficult to weave together all the strands. It would certainly be over-ambitious to pretend to blend such a complex mixture of theoretical contributions and empirical experiences which ultimately touch one of the most 'sensitive' points of economic analysis: the need to unify micro- and macro-economics. This unification, although difficult to construct from a theoretical point of view, is in effect imposed by the reality of markets and economic systems in which 'the economists' themselves are in fact immersed.The book has three main objectives: to provide an up-dated analysis of the most important theoretical developments in the field of oligopoly and the economics of the firm; to present significant empirical verifications; and to assess the micro-macro debate and the relations which link the market structure to the function of the economic system.