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Topics in Classical Micro- and Macroeconomics : Elements of a Critique of Neoricardian Theory
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ISBN: 9783642003233 9783642003240 9783642010279 9783642426322 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This book on Classical micro- and macroeconomics collects revised versions of papers which were written between 1983 and 2000, some jointly with coauthors, and it supplements them in a coherent way with recent unpublished work on the issues raised and treated in them. It attempts to demonstrate to the reader that themes of Classical economics, in particular in the tradition of Smith, Ricardo and Marx, can be synthesized into a coherent whole from the perspective of formal model building as well as applied Leontief-Stone Systems of National Accounts and the Input-Output approaches built on them. This reformulation of Classical economics differs significantly from the static Neoricardian formalization of the Classical approach to economics. In these days when the properly working of the market has become controversial, it is worth going back to classical economics and to study of how the classical dynamic mechanisms, for example the invisible hand in the sense of Adam Smith, were supposed to work to bring about stability, equilibrium and welfare. Having written many books and research papers on the dynamics of market economies, Peter Flaschel very competently takes on this issue in this current monograph. This book will definitely play an important role of reviving classical micro- and macroeconomic dynamics. Willi Semmler, New School University, New York This book is a must-read. It provides a comprehensive, original analysis of classical theories of prices, values, and distribution, which combines the utmost theoretical and mathematical rigour with a significant empirical orientation. Indeed, it outlines the foundations of an alternative analysis of capitalist economies and it is likely to become a classic for all scholars dissatisfied with standard approaches. Yet any open-minded economist would find that the arguments provided have the rare quality of challenging a number of long-held beliefs. Roberto Veneziani, Queen Mary University of London


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Postwar Japanese Economy : Lessons of Economic Growth and the Bubble Economy
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ISBN: 9781441963321 9781441963314 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York NY Springer New York Imprint Springer

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Since the end of World War II, the Japanese economy has seen rapid changes and remarkable progress. It has also experienced a bubble economy and period of prolonged stagnation. The book seeks to address three major questions: What kind of changes have taken place in the postwar years? In what sense has there been progress? What lessons can be drawn from the experiences? The book is organized as follows: It begins with an overview of the postwar Japanese economy, using data to highlight historical changes. The four major economic issues in the postwar Japanese economy (economic restoration, rapid economic growth, the bubble economy and current topics) are addressed, with particular focus on the meaning of economic growth and the bubble economy. The next chapters examine the important economic issues for Japan related to a welfare-oriented society, including income distribution, asset distribution, and the relative share of income. Another chapter deals with the household structure of Japan, the pension issue, and the importance of the effect of demographic change on income distribution. The final chapter gives a brief summary, examines quality of life as a lesson of this research, and briefly outlines a proposal for a basic design towards achieving a high satisfaction level society. This book will be of interest to economists, economic historians and political scientists and would be useful as a text for any course on the Japanese economy.


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Monetary and Fiscal Strategies in the World Economy
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ISBN: 9783642104763 9783642104756 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This book studies the strategic interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the world economy. The world economy consists of two regions, say Europe and America. The policy makers are the central banks and the governments. The policy targets are low inflation, low unemployment, and low structural deficits. There are demand shocks, supply shocks, and mixed shocks. There are regional shocks and common shocks. This book develops a series of basic, intermediate, and more advanced models. Here the focus is on the Nash equilibrium. The key questions are: Given a shock, can policy interactions reduce the existing loss? And to what extent can they do so? Another topical issue is policy cooperation. To illustrate all of this there are a lot of numerical examples.

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Economics/Management Science. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics. --- International Economics. --- Economic Policy. --- Economics. --- Economic policy. --- International economics. --- Macroeconomics. --- Economie politique --- Politique économique --- Macroéconomie --- Monetary policy. --- Fiscal policy. --- Globalization --- International economic relations. --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Finance, Public --- Monetary management --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Economic aspects. --- Government policy --- E-books --- AA / International- internationaal --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 333.820 --- 333.846.0 --- 336.401 --- 336.61 --- 331.31 --- 331.060 --- Monetary policy --- Fiscal policy --- -International economic relations --- 339.5 --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Anti-globalization movement --- Geldbeleid, bankbeleid en kredietbeleid: algemeenheden. --- Verband tussen het monetair, bank- en kredietbeleid en de economische ontwikkeling: algemeenheden. --- Verband tussen begrotingspolitiek en economische evolutie. --- Financieel beleid. --- Economisch beleid. --- Beïnvloeding van de economische bewegingen: algemeenheden. --- Economic aspects --- International economic relations --- Geldbeleid, bankbeleid en kredietbeleid: algemeenheden --- Verband tussen het monetair, bank- en kredietbeleid en de economische ontwikkeling: algemeenheden --- Verband tussen begrotingspolitiek en economische evolutie --- Financieel beleid --- Economisch beleid --- Beïnvloeding van de economische bewegingen: algemeenheden


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Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State? : The Case of Sweden
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ISBN: 9783642126123 9783642126116 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg Imprint Springer

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This book is the first to take a comprehensive view of the challenges that population ageing present in the near future taking Sweden as the case. Can the increasing number of retirees per worker be stopped by immigration or increasing fertility or will we need to increase pension age instead? Cost for the social-care system is readily increasing; even more is the costs for health care. Can the galloping costs be funded by an increase in taxes or do we need to make reforms, similar to the ones already made in the pension system, which has been used as a model for many other countries. The fact that it is difficult to make health care dependent on personal contributions, as is the case of the pension system, funding of health care is a true test of solidarity across generations. The book ends with a discussion on whether the demographic challenge to the welfare system is also a threat to the welfare state as such.


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Comment tremble la main invisible : Incertitude et marchés
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ISBN: 9782287996658 9782287996641 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris Springer Paris

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Il est largement admis aujourd'hui que la crise financière amorcée en 2007, et accentuée à l'automne 2008, a révélé une faille dans les systèmes de gestion des risques, une défaillance des techniques de fixation des prix et une démesure des interventions spéculatives. Répondant à ce constat, ce livre propose une nouvelle approche de la cohérence des marchés - de ce que Adam Smith a appelé la « main invisible ». Il analyse les conséquences de cette hypothèse sur la modélisation des phénomènes financiers et le comportement des investisseurs. Issu d'une vingtaine d'années de recherches en épistémologie des sciences économiques et sociales, l'ouvrage s'adresse aux économistes, aux sociologues et aux mathématiciens. En six chapitres, il présente une esquisse de l'histoire des rapports entre économie et mathématiques du hasard ; une définition du cadre hypothétique retenu pour l'analyse ; un bilan de la perspective probabiliste sur la cohérence des marchés ; une critique des conceptions de la valeur fondée sur des cadres désormais dépassés ; une exploration de l'incertitude des marchés financiers ; enfin, un élargissement de la « théorie de l'action rationnelle ». Il s'agit finalement de rendre compte aussi bien des actions de donneurs d'ordres surinformés que de celles d'exclus du monde économique régulier. Au fil de l'ouvrage, il apparaît clairement que la « main invisible » tremble aléatoirement, et pas toujours là où on l'imagine. Les institutions et les calculs économiques enregistrent et transforment cette incertitude. Les attentes de chacun lui répondent, les plus mesurées comme les plus extravagantes. Éric Brian, historien des sciences et sociologue, est directeur d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) et dirige la Revue de synthèse. Il est membre de la direction du CNRS.


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The Design of the Eurosystem's Monetary Policy Instruments
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ISBN: 9783790819786 3790819786 Year: 2007 Publisher: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD

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The creation of a single monetary currency and a single monetary policy in the euro area has faced extraordinary challenges, among them the design of suitable monetary policy instruments. This book evaluates monetary policy instruments of the Eurosystem against a number of requirements. For doing so, a theoretical model framework is developed which brings together the monetary policy activities of a central bank and the liquidity management of banks considering the main characteristics and institutional features of the euro area. Main results of this analysis are that different costs of obtaining liquidity directly from the central bank can explain the existence of an interbank market in the euro area and the positive spread between the interbank market rate and the repo rate; that the redesign of the Eurosystem's instruments in 2004 has to be evaluated positively and that a further change to the minimum reserve system would enhance the flexibility of monetary policy in the euro area.


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Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios
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ISBN: 9783540708704 9783540708698 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Modeling and management of credit risk are the main topics within banks and other lending institutions. Historical experience shows that, in particular, concentration of risk in credit portfolios has been one of the major causes of bank distress. Therefore, concentration risk is highly relevant to anyone who wants to go beyond the very basic portfolio credit risk models. The book gives an introduction to credit risk modeling with the aim to measure concentration risks in credit portfolios. Taking the basic principles of credit risk in general as a starting point, several industry models are studied. These allow banks to compute a probability distribution of credit losses at the portfolio level. Besides these industry models the Internal Ratings Based model, on which Basel II is based, is treated. On the basis of these models various methods for the quantification of name and sector concentration risk and the treatment of default contagion are discussed. The book reflects current research in these areas from both an academic and a supervisory perspective


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Social Banking and Social Finance : Answers to the Economic Crisis
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ISBN: 9781441977731 9781441977748 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York NY Springer New York Imprint Springer

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For over 2,000 years, banks have served to facilitate the exchange of money and to provide a variety of economic and financial services. During the most recent financial collapse and subsequent recession, beginning in 2008, banks have been vilified as perpetrators of the crisis, the public distrust compounded by massive public bailouts. Nevertheless, another form of banking has also emerged, with a focus on promoting economic sustainability, investing in community, providing opportunity for the disadvantaged, and supporting social, environmental, and ethical agendas. Social Banking and Social Finance traces the emergence of the bank with a conscience  and proposes a new approach to banking in the wake of the economic crisis. Featuring innovations and initiatives in banking from Europe, Canada, and the United States, Roland Benedikter presents an alternative to traditional banking practices that are focused exclusively on profit maximization. He argues that social banking is not about changing the system, but about improving some of its core features by putting into use the "triple bottom line" principle of profit-people-planet. Important lessons can be learned by the success of social banks that may be useful for the greater task of improving the global financial system and avoiding economic crises in the future.


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Ethical Principles and Economic Transformation - A Buddhist Approach
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ISBN: 9789048193097 9789048193103 Year: 2011 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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Buddhism points out that emphasizing individuality and promoting the greatest fulfillment of the desires of the individual conjointly lead to destruction. The book promotes the basic value-choices of Buddhism, namely happiness, peace and permanence. Happiness research convincingly shows that not material wealth but the richness of personal relationships determines happiness. Not things, but people make people happy. Western economics tries to provide people with happiness by supplying enormous quantities of things and today's dominating business models are based on and cultivates narrow self-centeredness.But what people need are caring relationships and generosity. Buddhist economics makes these values accessible by direct provision. Peace can be achieved in nonviolent ways. Wanting less can substantially contribute to this endeavor and make it happen more easily. Permanence, or ecological sustainability, requires a drastic cutback in the present level of consumption and production globally. This reduction should not be an inconvenient exercise of self-sacrifice. In the noble ethos of reducing suffering it can be a positive development path for humanity.


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Risk and Regulation in Euro Area Banks
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ISBN: 3030234290 3030234282 9783030234294 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Since the last financial crisis, much work has been undertaken to strengthen the ability to respond to distress in the EU financial system. However, reforms enacted since the Single Resolution Mechanism was created in July 2014 as part of the Banking Union initiated in 2012 mainly focused on non-performing loans, and the third pillar of the Banking Union, namely a European Deposit Insurance Scheme, has not been completed. Against this backdrop, this book focuses on the reasons why the EU banking system continues to remain fragile. In particular, high stocks of non-performing loans in some countries, the Level 3 assets evaluation and high exposure of many banks to the debts of their own governments are among the major concerns. Secondly, the book discusses the completion of the public safety net for banks, including deposit insurance, which remains primarily at the national level. This creates scope for contagion from banking sector fragility to national sovereign debt distress. Of interest to banking researchers, academics and students, this book combines rigorous analysis of the regulatory framework and empirical investigation on EU banking system data to prove that market discipline and risk sharing should be viewed as complementary pillars of the Euro-area financial architecture rather than as substitutes, requiring a reformed institutional framework.

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