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“alex pienkowski”

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  • Sovereign Debt

    A Guide for Economists and Practitioners

    Edited by S. Ali Abbas, Alex Pienkowski, Kenneth Rogoff ...
    The last time global sovereign debt reached the level seen today was at the end of the Second World War, and this shaped a generation of economic policymaking. International institutions were transformed, country policies were often draconian and distortive, and many crises ensued. By the early 1970s, when debt fell back to pre-war levels, the world was radically different. It is likely that ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • This Time Is Different

    Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

    by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff ...
    Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Between Debt and the Devil

    Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance

    by Adair Turner, Adair Turner ...
    Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woesAdair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System

    by Jean Tirole ...
    Once upon a time, economists saw capital account liberalization--the free and unrestricted flow of capital in and out of countries--as unambiguously good. Good for debtor states, good for the world economy. No longer. Spectacular banking and currency crises in recent decades have shattered the consensus. In this remarkably clear and pithy volume, one of Europe's leading economists examines these ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Sovereign Debt And The Financial Crisis: Will This Time Be Different?

    by Primo Braga Carlos A.; Vincelette Gallina A. ...
    In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 governments worldwide undertook massive fiscal interventions to stave off what otherwise would have likely been a system-wide financial and economic meltdown. The policy responses engendered significant shifts in growth trajectories and debt sustainability outlooks of both mature and developing economies. The magnitude of public liabilities incurred and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Emerging Capital Markets And Globalization: The Latin American Experience

    by De la Torre Augusto; Schmukler Sergio ...
    Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Currency Unions

    by Alberto Alesina, Robert J. Barro ...
    Currency Unions reviews the traditional case for flexible exchange rates and "countercyclical"—that is, expansionary during recessions and contractionary in booms—monetary policy, and shows how flexible exchange rate regimes can better insulate the economy from such real disturbances as terms-of-trade shocks. The book also looks at the pitfalls of flexible exchange rates—and why fixed rates, ... Read more

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  • Asian Financial crises: Origins, implications and solutions

    by International Monetary Fund ...

    $26.99 USD

  • Indonesia: Sustaining Growth During Global Volatility

    Edited by -;- Thomas -;- Mr. -;- Rumbaugh ...
    Over the past decade, Indonesia has developed into an important regional and global economy, as well as an active participant in the G20. The chapters in this book document the substantial improvements in the quality of macroeconomic policy that Indonesia has achieved, while also clearly laying out an agenda of measures that should be taken to safeguard these gains and further lower ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, And Growth: Prudence Or Abstinence?

    by Serven Luis; Perry Guillermo E.; Suescun Rodrigo ...
    Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects of fiscal policy on growth and on macroeconomic volatility over the cycle. Important issues such as the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Public Finance: An International Perspective

    by Joshua E Greene ...
    This book expands on issues like fiscal sustainability, state enterprises and the variety of subsidies, with a multi-country focus. Drawing examples from numerous countries, it presents issues in contemporary finance and especially fiscal policy that can benefit researchers and civil servants from both developed, as well as developing worlds and emerging market economies.Written in a simple and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Reconstructing the World Economy

    by Il SaKong, Olivier Blanchard ...
    This volume presents papers from a conference organized by the Korea Development Institute and the IMF. The purpose of this high-level conference was for policymakers and academics from the Asian region and from G-20 countries to discuss forward-looking economic and financial issues of interest to the international community, such as restoring normalcy to fiscal policy, macroprudential regulation, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD