CESifo Forum

2010

CESifo Forum 4/2010 (Winter)

Content:
Focus: NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Requiem (Carol Wise)
NAFTA � A Model Running Out of Breath? (Christian Deblock and Mich�le Rioux)
NAFTA, Trade and Development (Robert A. Blecker and Gerardo Esquivel)
Measuring the Economic Effects of NAFTA on Mexico (Dominick Salvatore)
NAFTA and Mexico-US Migration: What Lessons, What Next? (Philip Martin)
North America�s Uphill Battle on Climate Change and Its Implications for the North American Trading System (Meera Fickling)
Specials:
Turbulent Waters in the EMU: Translation from WirtschaftsWoche (Karl Otto P�hl)
Greenspan, Dodd-Frank and Stochastic Optimal Control (Jerome L. Stein)
Estimation of Production Costs for Energy Resources (Hans-Dieter Karl)
RePEc � An Independent Platform for Measuring Output in Economics (Christian Seiler and Klaus Wohlrabe)
Trends: Statistics Update

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research , Munich 2010

Language of publication English

Article number 11132010004000

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CESifo Forum 3/2010 (Autumn)

Content:
"The Financial Crisis: The Way Forward" - Documentation of the Munich Economic Summit 29�30 April 2010:
Introduction (Horst K�hler, Jean-Claude Trichet, Hans-Werner Sinn)
Panel 1: Globalization and the Crisis (Barry Eichengreen)
Panel 2: Managing the Crisis (Valdis Dombrovskis, Manfred J.M. Neumann)
Panel 3: Banking Regulation (Axel Weber)
Trends: Statistic Updates

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2010

Language of publication English

Article number 11132010003000

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CESifo Forum Special Issue August 2010

Special Issue: "Rescuing Europe" by Hans-Werner Sinn
After the recent global financial crisis several countries on the eurozone�s south-western periphery, in particular Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, have faced severe difficulties involving the risk of sovereign debt defaults and a new banking crisis. Other EU countries, above all France, were indirectly affected by this crisis, and some eastern European countries are also endangered. Although the EU has tried to contain the euro crisis with extensive rescue operations that have turned the no-bail out philosophy of the Maastricht Treaty on its head, in summer 2010 the danger was not yet over. Obviously, the construction of the eurozone, in particular the rules of conduct for the participating countries, needs to be reconsidered. Yet the euro should not be given up. The euro itself is indispensible for Europe. During the financial crisis it has protected its members from internal exchange rate shocks, it has reduced the European transactions costs for trade, and it is a necessary ingredient of further European integration. Nevertheless, Hans-Werner Sinn argues that the euro has not been as beneficial for all European countries as has often been claimed. The euro has shifted Europe�s growth forces from the center to the periphery. It has not been particularly beneficial for Germany, for example, and because of a lack of proper private and public debt constraints, it has stimulated the periphery of Europe up to the point of overheating, with ultimately dangerous consequences for European cohesion. The current crisis has not put an end to this development. It has flipped a toggle switch that will shift the forces of growth back from the periphery to the center, although the EU rescue measures counteract this. Hans-Werner Sinn criticizes these measures because of the moral hazard effects they generate and proposes a new political design for a more prosperous and stable development of the eurozone.

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2010

Language of publication English

Article number 11132010005000

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CESifo Forum 2/2010 (Summer)

Content:
Focus: Natural Disasters
Natural Catastrophes: Do We Have to Live with Them? (Wolfgang Kron)
The Economics of Natural Disasters (St�phane Hallegatte and Valentin Przyluski)
The Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Beyond Destruction (Eduardo Cavallo and Ilan Noy) Mitigating the Impact of Natural Disasters on Public Finance (David Hofman)
Natural Disaster Impacts and Fiscal Decentralization (Hideki Toya and Mark Skidmore)
Globalization and Localization of Disaster Impacts: An Empirical Examination (Yasuhide Okuyama)
A Hurricane Hits Hawaii: A Tale of Vulnerability to Natural Disasters (Makena Coffmann and Ilan Noy)
Short-Run Economic Impacts of Hurricane Katrina (and Rita) (Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, Jiyoung Park and Harry W. Richardson)
Measuring the Regional Economic Response to Hurricane Katrina (Bradley T. Ewing, Jamie B. Kruse and Mark A. Thompson)
What Should the World Do about Port-au-Prince? An Economic Assessment (Jacob Vigdor)
The 2010 Volcanic Ash Cloud and Its Financial Impact on the European Airline Industry (Mario Mazzocchi, Francesca Hansstein and Maddalena Ragona)
Specials:
A Euro Rescue Plan (Wolfgang Franz, Clemens Fuest, Martin Hellwig and Hans-Werner Sinn)
Comments on Recent Fiscal Developments and Exit Strategies (Vito Tanzi)
Spotlight: Government Debt in Europe (Christian Breuer and Matthias M�ller)
Trends: Statistics Update

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2010

Language of publication English

Article number 11132010002000

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CESifo Forum 1/2010 (Spring)

Content:
Focus: Unemployment Crisis: The Unemployment Challenge in Europe (Stephen Nickell)
Unemployment Crisis - Challenge and Opportunity (Lars Ljungqvist)
Recession and Umemployment in the OECD (David N. F. Bell and David G. Blanchflower)
Unemployment Persistence (Torben M. Andersen)
Do We Need Crisis-Specific Labor Market Policies? Lessons from Dutch Miracle
Part II (Jan C. van Ours)
Credit and Unemployment: Do Institutions Matter? (Donatella Gatti and Anne-G�el Vaubourg)
Specials: Italy: Inching Out of the Global Crisis (Riccardo Revelli)
The Global Economy: Recovering from the Edge of a Financial And Economic Abyss (Dilip K. Das)
Africa's Economic Future: Learning from the Past (Augustin Kwasi Fosu)
Spotlight: Renewable Energy and Net Electricity Imports (Marc Gronwald and Jana Lippelt)
Trends: Statistics Update

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2010

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Article number 11132010001000

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