Firms in export-oriented sectors with more exporters and more foreign investment, or firms with more access/use of credit, tend to export a higher share of their output, whether they are small or large. The latter points out that the benefits of size-neutral policies that improve the overall...

1 Introduction -- 2 Principal Contributions to the Problems of Distribution and Allocation -- 3 The Theoretical Model Designed for the Practical Allocation of Industries -- 4 The Petrochemical Industry and the Andean Common Market -- 5 The Data Framework Required for the Implementation of the...

Las crisis financieras de Mexico en 1982 y 1995 tuvieron una repercusion muy diferente en el sector real de la economia. Mientras que la primera causo un decenio de estancamiento, la segunda fue resuelta en un periodo relativamente corto. Aunque ambas crisis fueron causadas por la detencion e...

This thoroughly updated and revised second edition analyses the ideas behind Islamic finance, the forms Islamic finance has taken in practice and the tension between the two that may occasionally arise. Along with an expanded section on the history of the ban on interest, this second edition...

The past decade has witnessed a surge in interest in the area of financial globalization and economic performance. This was stimulated by the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis after plans to adopt full capital account liberalization by IMF member states failed. Scholars have since focused on the...