Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance
in The World Bank Economic Review
June 2010; p ublished online June 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Finance; International Relations and International Political Economy; Mergers and Acquisitions. 9718 words.
Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if...
Determinants of pollution: what do we really know?
in Oxford Economic Papers
July 2011; p ublished online November 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Manufacturing; Environmental Economics; International Relations and International Political Economy; Single Equation Models; Single Variables; Economic Development. 11447 words.
The recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically...
Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Crisis
in The World Bank Economic Review
February 2015; p ublished online January 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Trade; International Relations and International Political Economy; Regulation and Industrial Policy. 11152 words.
The collapse in trade and the contraction of output that occurred during 2008–9 was comparable to, and in many countries more severe than, the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, it did...
Inequality and economic and political change: a comparative perspective
in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
March 2011; p ublished online June 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Wages, Compensation, and Labour Costs; International Relations and International Political Economy; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance; Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. 6734 words.
This paper describes the evolution of inequality in the world economy since 1963 and describes the relationship between inequality, development, political regimes and the functional...
The revenge of the market on the rentiers.
in Cambridge Journal of Economics
July 2009; p ublished online July 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Economics; Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment; Economic Development; International Relations and International Political Economy; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity; International Finance; History of Financial Markets and Institutions; Financial Institutions and Services; Corporate Governance. 19819 words.
Starting from the perspective of heterodox Keynesian–Minskyian–Kindlebergian financial economics, this paper begins by highlighting a number of mechanisms that contributed to the current...
