It´s worse than you think: Halftime between two lost decades by Jack A. Goldstone, indicated by Henry Adler. “The recovery feel extraordinarily slow because we face an extraordinary three-part crisis: a financial shock compounded by a global slowdown and…
Taxations and equality in Latin America by Cyntia J. Arnson, Marcelo Bergman and Tasha Fairfield. “Since 2003, levels of inequality in several Latin American countries have improved sometimes dramatically. Explanations for the decline in inequality include an increase in…
Developments in fiscal federalism, multilevel finance and the economic crisis, seminar organized by LSE-ARC, University of the Azores, CEPAL and UN ECLA. “Given the recent developments in fiscal federalism theory, the summer course will focus on the role of…
Systemic risk and asymmetric responses in the financial industry by Germán López-Espinosa, Antonio Moreno, Antonio Rubia and Laura Valderrama published by IMF. “This paper proposes an extention of the so-called CoVaR measure that captures the asymmetric response of the…
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Diversification vs. Offshoring (Ceballos et al.)
Financial globalization in emerging countries: diversification vs. offshoring by Francisco Ceballos, Tatiana Didier and Sergio L. Schmukler. “The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during the 2000s, as domestic residents invested more abroad…
It’s official: Keynes was right transcription of a world debate sponsored by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) about Keynes. http://linkd.in/MocZqq Reflections on Democracy, Capitalism and Socialism by Ronaldo C. Carneiro, in this text are presented some issues like: “Why…
Bubble thy neighbor: Portfolio effects and externalities from capital controls by Kristin Forbes, Marcel Fratzscher, Thomas Kostka and Roland Straub published by NBER. “We use changes in Brazil´s tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for…
Finance & Development is a quarterly magazine of the IMF, indicated by Alvaro Manuel. This magazine publishing analysis of issues related to the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other world economic issues.”
A turning point in China’s development by Tao Wang. Some point about presentation: “Relatively weak household consumption; Why China’s saving rate so high?; The results of heavy industrialization; Wage growth and labor productivity; China’s potencial for capital deepening.”
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Natural Capital x Resource Curse (Canuto & Cavallari)
Natural capital and the resource curse by Otaviano Canuto and Matheus Cavallari published by World Bank (05/2012). “An abundance of natural resources is intuitively expected to be a blessing. Nonetheless, it has been argued for some decades that large…
