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A Pandemic Of Protectionism: How Economic Isolationism Affects The Economy, Álvaro Martín
A Pandemic Of Protectionism: How Economic Isolationism Affects The Economy, Álvaro Martín
Journal of New Finance
The aim of this paper is to study the economic consequences of protectionism from a macroeconomic perspective. For that purpose, we estimate the impact of tariffs on different economic variables as GDP growth, trade volume or unemployment, comparing the effects for two groups of countries: high-income and low-income. For this, we build a regression model to estimate the effects of tariff changes on each of these variables, differentiating between the two groups of countries. Tariffs contribute to increase unemployment, generate lower economic growth and reduce trade volumes, but by how much? This is very relevant in the actual pandemic environment …
Friedrich Hayek On Monetary And Banking Systems Reforms, Adrian Ravier
Friedrich Hayek On Monetary And Banking Systems Reforms, Adrian Ravier
Journal of New Finance
Throughout his life, Friedrich Hayek worked towards prescribing a monetary policy under which the world economy would again enjoy the stability it had known under the classical international gold standard system. This paper presents three banking and monetary systems that were pivotal in the history of banking and closely scrutinized by Hayek. The paper outlines those systems, summarizes Hayek’s comments on each and then discusses the recent literature on the subject in the light of Hayek’s influence.