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Full-Text Articles in Economic Theory
Confronting The New Reality: Globalisation, The Global Financial Crisis And The State, John H. Farrar, David Mayes
Confronting The New Reality: Globalisation, The Global Financial Crisis And The State, John H. Farrar, David Mayes
John H. Farrar
Globalisation and the financial crisis have presented major challenges to orthodoxy. This article discusses the implications of these challenges for the role of the state across the globe and argues that it is high time to confront our theory with reality.
Finanzkapital In The Twenty-First Century, Nikhilesh Dholakia
Finanzkapital In The Twenty-First Century, Nikhilesh Dholakia
Nikhilesh Dholakia
Purpose – Drawing inspiration from the 1910 book Finanzkapital by Rudolf Hilferding, this paper seeks to explore the nature of financial capital in the early twenty-first century from a political-economic and culture theory perspective. It aims to offer suggestions for transcending the crises-prone contemporary economic systems.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper reconceptualises the notions of Finanzkapital in the contemporary context, drawing selective evidence from current and twentieth century economic and business history.
Findings – The nature of contemporaneous Finanzkapital is elaborated by presenting seven “theses” that probe the nature of Finanzkapital prior to, during, and after the Great Recession of 2007-9. …
Selloffs, Bailouts, And Feedback: Can Asset Markets Inform Policy?, Raphael Boleslavsky, David L. Kelly, Curtis R. Taylor
Selloffs, Bailouts, And Feedback: Can Asset Markets Inform Policy?, Raphael Boleslavsky, David L. Kelly, Curtis R. Taylor
Raphael Boleslavsky
We present a model in which a policymaker observes trade in a financial asset before deciding whether to intervene in the economy, for example by offering a bailout or monetary stimulus. Because an intervention erodes the value of private information, informed investors are reluctant to take short positions and selloffs are, therefore, less likely and less informative. The policymaker faces a tradeoff between eliciting information from the asset market and using the information so obtained. In general she can elicit more information if she commits to intervene only infrequently. She thus may benefit from imperfections in the intervention process or …
Heterogeneous Tiebout Communities With Private Production And Anonymous Crowding, Jaime Luque
Heterogeneous Tiebout Communities With Private Production And Anonymous Crowding, Jaime Luque
Jaime P. Luque