Title:International Lending of Last Resort and Moral Hazard: A Model of IMF’s Catalytic Finance
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; GUIMARAES, Bernardo; ROUBINI, NourielDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyzes the trade-off between official liquidity provision and debtor moral hazard in international financial crises. In the model, crises are caused by the interaction of bad fundamentals, self-fulfilling runs ...
Title:International Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Current Account
Author(s):HOFFMANN, MathiasDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Intertemporal models of the current account generally assume that global shocks do not affect the current account. We use this assumption to identify global and country-specific shocks in a bivariate VAR of output and the ...
Title:International Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Capital Mobility and the Current Account: A cointegrated approach
Author(s):HOFFMANN, MathiasDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis cointegrated vectorautoregressions are used to explore the empirics of the intertemporal approach to the current account recently popularized by Sachs (1981), Obstfeld (1986), Obstfeld and Rogo? (1995a,b), ...
Title:International Migration and Europe’s Demographic Challenge
Author(s):FARGUES, PhilippeDate:2011-06-01Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EU-US Immigration SystemsAbstract:Demography challenges Europe in three ways: 1) Europe’s size: while the population of Europe will decrease or stabilise, depending upon migration scenarios, most other regions will continue to increase so that the relative ...
Title:International Migration and State Sovereignty in an Integrating Europe
Author(s):GEDDES, AndrewDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the development of migration policy competencies of the European Union (EU) since the 1990s. It pays particular attention to pot icy framework that developed after the Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties ...
Title:International Migration and the Demographic Transition: A two-way interaction
Author(s):FARGUES, PhilippeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper explores the relationship between the demographic transition and international migration, that is, between population dynamics and direct connectivity between peoples. The first part examines how ideas conveyed ...
Title:International Migration System between Turkey and Russia: The Case of Project-Tied Migrant Workers in Moscow*
Author(s):İÇDUYGU, AhmetDate:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:With over 4.5 million persons born in Turkey living abroad – for the most part in Europe – Turkey is
currently one of the most significant emigration countries in the world. If native-born children of
immigrants are ...
Title:International Norms and Local Agents in Peacebuilding: Small arms control in post-war Kosovo and Cambodia
Author(s):THOLENS, SimoneDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Finding that existing theories of International Relations have problems explaining why international Small Arms Control programmes succeed or fail, this thesis explores internationally driven micro-disarmament processes ...
Title:International Nuclear Law and Nuclear Export Controls
Author(s):VISKI, AndreaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Evaluating the effectiveness of nuclear export controls necessitates a serious analysis of the circumstances in which they function and the elements that give them force, such as the international non-proliferation legal ...
Title:International Organizations and Transnational Corporations at a World Court of Human Rights
Author(s):SCHEININ, MartinDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article is based on the author’s involvement in preparing a Draft Statute for a future World Court of Human Rights. The proposal seeks to modify the traditional vertical structure of human rights norms by introducing ...