The illicit trade in arms, strategic and dual-use goods has attracted considerable international attention since the end of the Cold War. A particular interest has developed with regard to preventing the diversion of weapons from the licit market into the ‘black market’. This paper focuses...

The world has entered a global recession that is causing widespread business contraction, increases in unemployment, and shrinking government revenues. The process for coping with the crisis by countries across the globe has been manifest in four basic phases. The first has been intervention to...

Price transmission is a critically important issue that affects market enlargement and the unification of Canadian-U.S. agriculture. This study adopts alternative frameworks to examine the nature of cross-border integration in selected meat and livestock markets. The aim is to determine the...

Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...

Este artículo describe una "paradox of global thrift". Se considera un mundo en el que las tasas de interés son bajas y la política monetaria está limitada por el límite inferior cero. Se imagina que los Gobiernos implementan políticas financieras y fiscales prudenciales para estabilizar...

El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) realizó en agosto de 2021 una nueva asignación de derechos especiales de giro (DEG), por un importe equivalente a 650 mm de dólares estadounidenses. Se trata de una cuantía significativa, que triplica los saldos actuales. En particular, para España ha...

Evento: International Symposium on Central Bank Independence. Organizado por: Sveriges Riksbank ; There needs to be an appropriate balance between globally-agreed decisions and national measures. This is the approach that has always been pursued by the Basel Committee. It comprises: (i) a common...

Ante la crisis del COVID-19, tanto el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) como otras instituciones multilaterales y distintos países tomaron medidas excepcionales. Entre otras, el FMI acordó la mayor asignación de derechos especiales de giro (DEG) de su historia, una asignación que más que...