Economics for Investment Decision Makers: Micro, Macro, and International Economics

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News: Putting the ‘system’ in the international monetary system

5 hours ago - VoxEU.org: Recent Articles

Michael Bordo, Angela Redish, 20 June 2013The Eurozone has been going through an existential crisis since 2010. The column discusses research that draws an analogy between the...

News: The European Crisis in the Context of the History of Previous Financial Crises -- by Michael D. Bordo, Harold James

5 days ago - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

There are some striking similarities between the pre 1914 gold standard and EMU today. Both arrangements are based on fixed exchange rates, monetary and fiscal orthodoxy. Each...

News: IFDP1081: Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies: A Brave New World?

5 days ago - International Finance Discussion Papers

Shaghil Ahmed and Andrei Zlate. We examine the determinants of net private capital inflows to emerging market economies. These inflows are computed from quarterly balance-of-p...

News: ‘Currency wars’ should not be on the G8 agenda

7 days ago - Forum:Blog

The term “currency wars” is a catchy way of saying “competitive devaluation.” In the wake of the sharp fall in the value of the yen over the last six months, owing to ...

News: Japanese stocks tumble as yen gains

7 days ago - BBC News - Business

Japanese shares tumble as the yen hits a 10-week high against the US dollar, triggering concerns of a drop in exporters' profits.

News: 12Jun/Foreign exchange intervention and expectation in emerging economies

8 days ago - BIS research papers

BIS Working Papers No 414. Using monthly data for four selected emerging economies, sterilised central bank foreign exchange intervention is found to have little systematic ...

News: Future of the world trading system: Asian perspectives

8 days ago - VoxEU.org: Recent Articles

Richard Baldwin, Masahiro Kawai, Ganeshan Wignaraja , 12 June 2013The WTO risks losing its centricity in the world trading system due to its focus on 20th century trade issues...

News: Time to bridge the gap in FDI regulation

9 days ago - Forum:Blog

It used to be that suggesting World Trade Organization (WTO) members should negotiate a multilateral agreement on investment would attract incredulous stares. After all, the O...

News: 2013-38: Antidumping Duties and Plant-Level Restructuring

9 days ago - FRB Finance and Economics Discussion Series Working Papers

Justin R. Pierce. This paper examines the effect of antidumping duties on the restructuring activities of protected plants. Using a dataset that contains the full population ...

News: Some news about preferential international market access

13 days ago - VoxEU.org: Recent Articles

Peter Egger, Georg Wamser, 7 June 2013Free-trade agreements are often signed in conjunction with bilateral investment or tax treaties, or even currency agreements. This colum...