This paper reviews the key insights of Hyman P. Minsky in arguing why finance cannot be left to free markets, drawing on the East Asian development experience. The paper suggests that Minsky's more complete stock-flow consistent analytical framework, by putting finance at the center of analysis...

Despite having succeeded in passing important and even epochal reforms(health care, financial sector) and avoided the US economy falling in a depressive spiral, the Obama Administration and the Democrats were heavily punished at the mid-term elections of November 2010. What went wrong? This...

Access to finance by the poor is a sine qua non for poverty reduction through economic development thereby driving inclusive growth which can further lead to sustainable growth. This study using adequate data covering pre and postliberalisation period from 1974-75 to 2007-08 in the Indian...

Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...

El desarrollo científico y tecnológico es una de los factores más influyentes sobre la sociedad contemporánea. La globalización mundial, polarizadora de la riqueza y el poder, sería impensable sin el avance de las fuerzas productivas que la ciencia y la tecnología han hecho posibles. El...

En los últimos tiempos los países latinoamericanos han venido desarrollando de manera reconocida los Sistemas de Administración Financiera Gubernamental; y especialmente la contabilidad de gobierno que registra, sistemáticamente, las operaciones que se realizan en los distintos niveles de la...

Nach dem Ausbruch der internationalen Finanzkrise wird hier eine erste Bilanz für den deutschen Bankensektor gezogen. Dabei zeigt sich: Es bestehen weiterhin erhebliche Risiken. Die systemische Relevanz einzelner Banken ist sogar noch gestiegen. Wesentlich für die Zukunftsfähigkeit des...

Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative approach to measure the cost-benefit tradeoff, by analyzing stockholders’ reactions to the announcement and vote on the proposed rule. More specifically, the authors use event study methodology to investigate the stock price reaction...

Purpose Crisis events are windows of opportunity during which a country’s leaders may implement economic policy adjustments which change that country’s level of economic freedom and affect the local capital market. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between annual changes in an...