Economy & Markets
A new international cooperation model
A new distribution of the strategic, geoeconomic, military and political potentials is currently taking place in the world. Hence we must orient...
International Trade: A New Chapter in History
International political observers were shocked by Brexit and then Donald Trump‘s US Presidential victory. These two events are potent enough to unnerve the contemporary...
The agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC countries
O PEC, which is the cartel of the 14 major oil producers, has recently adopted a policy that is bound to change all...
President Trump’s economic war against Germany and the euro
J ust a week after his official installation at the White House, Donald J. Trump lashed out at China, accused of manipulating its...
Does Economic Growth Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries?
Poverty alleviation has implied an important goal for developing countries and policy-makers throughout the last century. Recently, organisations such as the United Nations and...
The Domino’s Effect of International Business Cycles
Business cycles are common phenomena in the countries’ economy, implying a puzzling pattern that behavioural economists try to study and forecast.
What is known as...
Are Free-Floating Exchange Rate Regimes Advantageous or Disadvantageous for International Trade Growth?
In light of the termination of the US dollar convertibility to gold (end of the Breton Woods exchange rate system, 1971-73), there has been...
The policy of artificial scarcity of currency
Herodotus tells us that it was Croesus, King of Lydia, the land from which, according to Livy, the Etruscans came, who invented the minting...
Rebuttal to the Washington Post: The True Economic State
Whether one agrees with Donald Trump’s economic policies or not, the state of economy he will inherit needs to be clarified. A recent article...
The Potential Role of Behavioural Economics for the 2017 German G-20 Presidency
The Federal Republic of Germany assumed last December the 2017 presidency of the G-20, after China held the 2016 presidency since December 2015. Proposed...