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UNINA9910451101203321 |
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Managing currency crises in emerging markets [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael P. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Frankel |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2003 |
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1-281-12549-0 |
9786611125493 |
0-226-15542-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (456 p.) |
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A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
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DooleyMichael P <1944-> (Michael Patrick) |
FrankelJeffrey A |
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Currency question - Developing countries |
Foreign exchange rates - Developing countries |
Financial crises - Developing countries |
Electronic books. |
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Proceedings of a conference held in Monterey, Calif., in March 2001. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interest Rates and Exchange Rates in the Korean, Philippine, and Thai Exchange Rate Crises -- 2. Interest Rate Defense against Speculative Attack as a Signal: A Primer -- 3. Does It Pay to Defend against a Speculative Attack? -- 4. The International Lender of Last Resort: How Large Is Large Enough? -- 5. Rescue Packages and Output Losses Following Crises -- 6. Financial Restructuring in Banking and Corporate-Sector Crises: What Policies to Pursue? -- 7. On the Fiscal Implications of Twin Crises -- 8. An Evaluation of Proposals to Reform the International Financial Architecture -- 9. Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia -- 10. A Cure Worse Than the Disease? Currency Crises and the Output Costs of IMF-Supported Stabilization Programs -- 11. IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty -- 12. Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
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The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and |
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high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy debates on these issues-consider how best to reduce the frequency and cost of such crises. The contributions here explore the management process from the beginning of a crisis to the long-term effects of the techniques used to minimize it. The first three chapters focus on the earliest responses and the immediate defense of a currency under attack, exploring whether unnecessary damage to economies can be avoided by adopting the right response within the first few days of a financial crisis. Next, contributors examine the adjustment programs that follow, considering how to design these programs so that they shorten the recovery phase, encourage economic growth, and minimize the probability of future difficulties. Finally, the last four papers analyze the actual effects of adjustment programs, asking whether they accomplish what they are designed to do-and whether, as many critics assert, they impose disproportionate costs on the poorest members of society. Recent high-profile currency crises have proven not only how harmful they can be to neighboring economies and trading partners, but also how important policy responses can be in determining their duration and severity. Economists and policymakers will welcome the insightful evaluations in this important volume, and those of its companion, Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel's Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets. |
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UNINA9910460482803321 |
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Autore |
Hayton Darin |
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The crown and the cosmos : astrology and the politics of Maximilian I / / Darin Hayton |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Astrology - History - 16th century |
Astrology and politics |
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Vienna (Austria) Civilization 16th century |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Astrology and Maximilian's autobiography -- Astrology as imperial propaganda -- Teaching astrology -- Instruments and authority -- Wall calendars and practica -- Ephemerides and their uses -- Prognostications -- Conclusion : astrology and Maximilian's legacy. |
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"Despite its popular association today with magic, astrology was once a complex and sophisticated practice, grounded in technical training provided by a university education. The Crown and the Cosmos examines the complex ways that political practice and astrological discourse interacted at the Habsburg court, a key center of political and cultural power in early modern Europe. Like other monarchs, Maximilian I used astrology to help guide political actions, turning to astrologers and their predictions to find the most propitious times to sign treaties or arrange marriage contracts. Perhaps more significantly, the emperor employed astrology as a political tool to gain support for his reforms and to reinforce his own legitimacy as well as that of the Habsburg dynasty. Darin Hayton analyzes the various rhetorical tools astrologers used to argue for the nobility, antiquity, and utility of their discipline, and how they strove to justify their 'science' on the grounds that through its rigorous interpretation of the natural world, astrology |
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could offer more reliable predictions. This book draws on extensive printed and manuscript sources from archives across northern and central Europe, including Poland, Germany, France, and England"-- |
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UNINA9910465491403321 |
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Autore |
Penegar Kenneth Lawing |
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Titolo |
The political trial of Benjamin Franklin [[electronic resource] ] : a prelude to the American Revolution / / Kenneth Lawing Penegar |
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New York, : Algora Pub., c2011 |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Statesmen - United States |
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United States Foreign relations 1775-1783 |
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A duel in Hyde Park -- Private letters, public causes -- Imperial over-reach : the political context of the letters -- Harvest of spite : reaction in the London press -- Preliminary hearing -- Showdown in the cockpit -- The verdict -- Circles of support -- Other perils and after shocks -- Second thoughts -- Going home, looking back. |
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Benjamin Franklin, it seems, was a reluctant revolutionary. In tracing the course of his political transformation, this book explores the social and political understandings and misunderstandings that both sustained and divided Britain and its colonies in North America. At the center of the story is Benjamin Franklin's decision in late 1772 to use a cache of personal letters that had fallen in his lap in London for revelation in Massachusetts - essentially a Wikileaks for 1772 - and the consequences of that decision for himself and for the cause of an amicable settlement of differences between |
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