Product Description: This book explores the debate on the policies required to overcome the crises of 2008 and 2011, in which the focus on short-term measures has overshadowed the need to analyze the low growth rate in the European Union, and especially the Eurozone, as the basis for interventions that will counteract the tendency toward stagnation...read more

Product Description: This book explores the reasons behind Europe’s poor performance in terms of overall growth and its progressively diminishing role in the global context. Recognizing that the big challenge is to restore confidence and hope in Europe, potential solutions are discussed...read more

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: This volume presents a selection of contributions to the XXIV Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on “Public debt, global governance and economic dynamism”. For the past 23 years, the Seminar has provided an ideal opportunity to meet and discuss the most topical issues in economic research...read more

Product Description: The enlargement process, the creation of the Monetary Union and the need to promote further the political and economic integration of Europe have ignited an intense debate at the European level among researchers and policy-makers...read more

Product Description: The existence of significant differences in the organization of the US and European financial markets prompts a number of important questions. Firstly, is it possible to determine the type of institutions that are more conducive to growth? Secondly, did the financial markets play a key role in securing the growth and prosperity of the US during the 1990s? A third issue is the effect of the recent changes in the organization of the financial markets...read more

Product Description: This volume focuses on the information and communication (ICT) revolution and its impact on economic growth. Even though the emergence of the knowledge economy is at the center of attention by media and is often a subject of economic policy debate, economic research on the issue is still relatively underdeveloped and many aspects of it are still awaiting proper theoretical and empirical scrutiny...read more

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: 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

Examines how, in Eastern Europe, privatizing firms and liberalizing their market environment generates a variety of problems, many of which are not common to the analogous attempts in industrial countries. The book is an analysis of the empirical process of privatization in Eastern Europe.

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