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    Trade liberalization, investment and growht

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    This article presents five theoretical openness and growth links that can account for trade-induced investment led growth. The links are all demonstrated with a neoclassical growth model developed in the context of trade models that allow for imperfect competition and scale economies. This sort of old growth theory in a new trade model has not been thoroughly explored in the literature since the profession skipped from old-growth-old-trade models straigth to new-growth-new-trade models. Nonetheless, such models are necessary to explain several key aspects of the econometric evidence on trade and growth. For example, cross-country data suggests that openness influences growth only via its effects on investment, and suggests that openness promotes investment in all countries whatever the capital-intensity of their exports (contrary to the prediction of old-growth-old-trade models)

    The interwar international monetary disorder: an international political economy approach

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    The lack of cooperation between central banks is the most widely accepted interpretation of the collapse of the gold-exchange standard. This explanation does not take account of the evolution of systems of payment: national commodity moneys were progressively replaced by fiduciary money. These changes were incompatible with the functioning of the classical gold standard. There was need, also at the international level, of greater elasticity of money supply. The gold-exchange standard was such an attempt. However, an international convertible money, to be accepted, presupposes the existence of an institutional framework that guarantees its value. This can only occur under certain conditions. The prevalence of a multilateral equilibrium in international relations impeded the existence of an international money with a high level of fiduciary content

    L’attribuzione della vigilanza bancaria alla BCE: un approccio di political economy

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    All’atto della sua costituzione alla BCE non fu concessa, accanto alla funzione monetaria, la responsabilità della vigilanza bancaria. La crisi finanziaria del 2008-2009 e quella del debito sovrano del 2010-2011 hanno indotto policymakers e economisti a riconsiderare la questione. In questo contributo si ripercorre il processo attraverso cui si è pervenuti ad attribuire le funzioni di vigilanza alla BCE. Tale processo è presentato come l’esito di un negoziato tra diversi attori politici. Nel loro interagire questi attori possono dar luogo ad alleanze e coalizioni. Come gli altri attori politici anche le istituzioni internazionali vivono di fasi in cui il loro potere aumenta e fasi in cui il loro potere diminuisce. In occasione delle recenti crisi finanziarie la BCE ha svolto un ruolo cruciale per la preservazione dell’integrità dell’Eurozona. A seguito di ciò la sua in- fluenza politica è sensibilmente aumentata. Sfruttando anche questo fattore la BCE ha potuto estendere il suo potere acquisendo la responsabilità della vigilanza sulle banche dell’Eurozona
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