Browsing Applied Economics by Title
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The Reform of the International Financial Architecture
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The role of central banks in monetary affairs: A comparative perspective
(2014-01-01)© Cambridge University Press 2014. This chapter presents a comparative approach to the study of central banks, with emphasis on the evolving role of the US Federal Reserve System and the ECB. A central bank is the key ... -
The rule of law in monetary affairs: World trade forum
(2014-01-01)© Cambridge University Press 2014. The global financial crisis and subsequent sovereign debt crisis in Europe demonstrated that the relationship between law and economics in the design of the monetary system must be ... -
Saving and wealth inequality
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Sovereign Debt Management
(OUP Oxford, 2014-01)The most authoritative and comprehensive book available on sovereign debt management written by practitioners and scholars of world renown. -
Structural Change in Industrial Output: China 1995-2010.
Purpose The aim of this paper is to learn about some patterns of sectoral and industrial structural change of the Chinese economy over the 1995-2010 period, which also complements a previous paper of the author. The chosen ... -
Tariff Escalation and Preferences in International Fish Production and Trade
(2015)This paper reviews recent literature on the effects of tariff liberalisation on wild caught fish product production structures, development outcomes, and fish stocks. Using the case of canned tuna, the report shows that ... -
A time study of physicians' work in a German university eye hospital to estimate unit costs.
(2015)BACKGROUND: Technical efficiency of hospital services is debated since performance has been heterogeneous. Staff time represents the main resource in patient care and its inappropriate allocation has been identified as a ... -
Total bureaucratisation, neo-liberalism, and Weberian oligarchy
(University of Leicester, University of Essex, 2016-03-01)David Graeber’s book on rules and bureaucracy examines the topic from a refreshing standpoint. Much management literature, since at least Bennis (1965), has made the claim that bureaucracy and competitive markets and/or ... -
A Two-Factor Cointegrated Commodity Price Model with an Application to Spread Option Pricing
(Elsevier/Science Direct, 2017-01-17)In this paper, we propose an easy-to-use yet comprehensive model for a system of cointegrated commodity prices. While retaining the exponential affine structure of previous approaches, our model allows for an arbitrary ... -
Unanimous rules in the laboratory
(2017-03)