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This text is the second report in a series of "Geneva Reports on the World Economy", organized by the Center for International Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva. The report focuses on asset price inflation and discusses what can be done to alleviate this growing problem.

This book examines the implementation of competition policy during the 1990s in Hungary, Poland, and the Czech and Slovak Republics.

This report asks: What are likely to be the principal issues facing the international economy over the next decade? What could a realistic analysis hope for in the way of progress in confronting the problems of the future? What are the constraints imposed by the realities of international and domestic politics? What forms of international economi

Sponsored by the UK Department for International Development, this book deals directly with concerns that reform may have adverse effects on poverty in developing countries. The first part of the book recaps the current debates over trade policy and anti-poverty policy and the connections between them. The second part explores ten areas of trade policy that are likely to figure in future trade negotiations and examines the possible impact upon...

The third title in the MECB series begins with a review of the main events of the year and how the ECB has dealt with them. Topics include: eurozone inflation and the exchange rate of the euro, transparency of monetary policy, relationships between the ECB and the eurogroup, and macroeconomic adjustment in the monetary union.

The euro can be seen as the worlds largest economic policy experiment. Six years ago, European nations accounting for 20% of world output, 30% of world trade, and 300 million people found themselves using the same currency. Given the importance that monetary regimes have on the course of human events, this should have had effects all across the boardaffecting everything from unions wage bargaining to educational exchanges and corporate investm...

Part of the Geneva Reports on the World Economy series, this title looks at exit strategies for central banks.

This book investigates the role played by the structure of competition in export agriculture supply chains in shaping rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book summarizes the state of knowledge in the economic literature on trade and development regarding the costs of adjustment to trade openness and how adjustment takes place in developing countries. The contributions by leading experts look at: - the magnitude of trade adjustment costs in the presence of frictions in factor markets, - the impacts of trade shocks and greater trade openness, - the factors that affect the way trade, especial...

This sixth title in the Geneva Reports on the World Economy series looks at international economic cooperation in the twenty-first century.

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This book, first published as an eBook on VoxEU.org to inform world leaders ahead of the WTO's Trade Ministerial conference in Geneva in late 2009, presents the economics profession's received wisdom on the causes, consequence and prospects of the Great Trade Collapse - a wisdom that continues to serve the trade community today.

The third Monitoring European Deregulation report looks at recent developments in the European airline industry following liberalization. It assesses the impact on consumers and firms so far and compares developments in Europe to the U.S. experience. Using an analytical framework for assessing the degree and nature of competition in airlines, the authors examine the direction in which the industry is currently headed before concluding with an ...

The Geneva Reports on the World Economy series was launched by the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB) and CEPR in 1999. This years report looks at transparency, risk management and international financial fragility.

There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather, it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker e...

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Monitoring European Integration was established in 1990 as an annual series of reports on the progress of economic integration in Europe. The objective of the reports is to raise the level of public discussion on European policy issues. Monitoring European Integration combines intellectual rigor with attention to key policy issues and is the only analysis of European integration that is specifically aimed at both European and non-European audi...

Brings together a group of economists internationally known for their work on macroeconomics and monetary policy. MECB will monitor the European economy and the work of the ECB. Its analyses will be presented to the public, including the European Parliament and the media. A full MECB report is published each year, complemented by an Update that draws on recent publications of the ECB.

This book explores the long-term policy challenges in key areas of the Russian economy, including fiscal and monetary policy, the labor market, the financial sector, industrial restructuring, and the barter economy.

The 17th Geneva Report on the World Economy examines the causes of the unusually low interest rates seen in recent years, asks whether they are likely to persist, and explores the possible consequences should that happen. On the causes, the report argues that demographic developments and Chinese financial integration have been important drivers, reinforced since the crisis by a reluctance to invest and a shift in investor preferences towards s...