Title:The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPRAbstract:This paper investigates the international dimension of productivity and demand shocks to US manufacturing. Identifying shocks with sign restrictions based on standard theory predictions we find that productivity gains in ...
Title:International Dimensions of Optimal Monetary Policy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; PESENTI, PaoloDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper provides a baseline general equilibrium model of optimal monetary policy among interdependent economies with monopolistic firms and nominal rigidities. An inward-looking policy of domestic price stabilization ...
Title:International Economic Law in the 21st Century: Need for stronger ‘democratic ownership’ and cosmopolitan reforms
Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-UlrichDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This article, accepted for publication in the 2012 Polish Yearbook of International Law, argues that – in order to make international economic law (IEL) a more effective instrument for protecting human rights and other ...
Title:International Economic Law, 'Public Reason' and Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods
Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-UlrichDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Is ineffective protection of international public goods, and thereby also of interrelated national public goods, the inevitable fate of humanity? The negative answer to this question in Section II argues that ineffective ...
Title:International Elections Experts, Monitors, and Representations in the Arab World
Author(s):CARAPICO, SheilaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Elections are sites of festivity, celebrity, and sometimes dramatic suspense, unique occasions for the simultaneous nationwide engagement of candidates, campaign volunteers, poll-workers, voters, and even abstainers and ...
Title:The International Fair Trade Movement: Actors and regulatory approaches
Author(s):CREMONA, Marise; MARIN DURAN, GraciaDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter examines the international fair trade movement, which is presently composed of two main private networks: that operating under the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), and that operating under Fairtrade ...
Title:International Finance and Policy Cooperation: Before and After the 2007-2010 Financial Crisis
Author(s):KONOE, SaraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to assess regional and international policy cooperation in financial regulation from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Despite the development of regulatory and supervisory standards from Basel I ...
Title:International Financial Integration of South-Mediterranean Economies: A bird's-eye view
Author(s):PEETERS, Marga; SABRI, Nidal R.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Should South-Mediterranean economies continue their financial integration in the world economy, considering their current stance and in view of the experiences of developed economies with the global financial crisis? The ...
Title:International Financial Markets, Cross-Border Transmission of Shocks and Risk-Sharing
Author(s):VIANI, FrancescaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:One of the most relevant events of the last decades has been the fast integration of international financial markets. As most restrictions to cross-border asset trade were removed, the volume of activity in international ...