Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738170013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738170013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Annales d'économie et de statistique
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Econometrics
Languages : fr
Pages : 566
Book Description
Culture | 2030 indicators
Author: UNESCOPublisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231003550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Top Incomes
Author: A. B. AtkinsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199286892
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This volume brings together an exciting range of new studies of top incomes in a wide range of countries from around the world. The studies use data from income tax records to cast light on the dramatic changes that have taken place at the top of the income distribution. The results cover 22 countries and have a long time span, going back to 1875.
Philosophy manual: a South-South perspective
Author: Chanthalangsy, PhinithPublisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231010069
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Chicago Plan Revisited
Author: Mr.Jaromir BenesPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1475505523
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring 100% reserve backing for deposits. Irving Fisher (1936) claimed the following advantages for this plan: (1) Much better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the supply of bank-created money. (2) Complete elimination of bank runs. (3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt. (4) Dramatic reduction of private debt, as money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation. We study these claims by embedding a comprehensive and carefully calibrated model of the banking system in a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. We find support for all four of Fisher's claims. Furthermore, output gains approach 10 percent, and steady state inflation can drop to zero without posing problems for the conduct of monetary policy.
Free and Fair Elections
Author: Guy S. Goodwin-GillPublisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISBN: 9291422770
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Economic Fallacies
Author: Frederic BastiatPublisher: Simon Publications
ISBN: 9781931541022
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.
Personal Wealth in Britan
Author: AtkinsonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521217354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Monograph examining evidence on the distribution of private sector wealth in the UK - documents the wealth-holdings of the top wealth group and trends over the past 50 years and provides a statistical analysis of the implications for income distribution and capital tax policies. Bibliography pp. 318 to 323, graphs and statistical tables.
Asking About Prices
Author: Alan BlinderPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440684
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Why do consumer prices and wages adjust so slowly to changes in market conditions? The rigidity or stickiness of price setting in business is central to Keynesian economic theory and a key to understanding how monetary policy works, yet economists have made little headway in determining why it occurs. Asking About Prices offers a groundbreaking empirical approach to a puzzle for which theories abound but facts are scarce. Leading economist Alan Blinder, along with co-authors Elie Canetti, David Lebow, and Jeremy B. Rudd, interviewed a national, multi-industry sample of 200 CEOs, company heads, and other corporate price setters to test the validity of twelve prominent theories of price stickiness. Using everyday language and pertinent scenarios, the carefully designed survey asked decisionmakers how prominently these theoretical concerns entered into their own attitudes and thought processes. Do businesses tend to view the costs of changing prices as prohibitive? Do they worry that lower prices will be equated with poorer quality goods? Are firms more likely to try alternate strategies to changing prices, such as warehousing excess inventory or improving their quality of service? To what extent are prices held in place by contractual agreements, or by invisible handshakes? Asking About Prices offers a gold mine of previously unavailable information. It affirms the widespread presence of price stickiness in American industry, and offers the only available guide to such business details as what fraction of goods are sold by fixed price contract, how often transactions involve repeat customers, and how and when firms review their prices. Some results are surprising: contrary to popular wisdom, prices do not increase more easily than they decrease, and firms do not appear to practice anticipatory pricing, even when they can foresee cost increases. Asking About Prices also offers a chapter-by-chapter review of the survey findings for each of the twelve theories of price stickiness. The authors determine which theories are most popular with actual price setters, how practices vary within different business sectors, across firms of different sizes, and so on. They also direct economists' attention toward a rationale for price stickiness that does not stem from conventional theory, namely a strong reluctance by firms to antagonize or inconvenience their customers. By illuminating how company executives actually think about price setting, Asking About Prices provides an elegant model of a valuable new approach to conducting economic research.
