Authors:Alberto Alesina, Francesco Giavazzi,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: decline, reform, europe, future
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0262012324
ISBN-13: 9780262012324

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political decline is almost inevitable, economists Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi write in this provocative book. Without comprehensive reform, continental Western Europe’s overprotected, overregulated economies will continue to slow—and its political influence will become negligible. This doesn’t mean that Italy, Germany, France, and other now-prosperous countries will become poor; their standard of living will remain comfortable. But they will become largely irrelevant on

Authors:Alberto Alesina, Francesco Giavazzi,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: research, conference, report, economic, bureau, euro, national, europe
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0226012832
ISBN-13: 9780226012834

It is rare for countries to give up their currencies and thus their ability to influence such critical aspects of their economies as interest and exchange rates. Yet ten years ago a number of European countries did exactly that when they adopted the euro. Despite some dissent, there were a number of arguments in favor of this policy change: it would facilitate exchange of goods, money, and people by decreasing costs; it would increase trade; and it would enhance efficiency and competitiveness at the international level.A decade is an ideal time frame over which to evaluate the success of the e

Authors:Francisco Torres, Francesco Giavazzi,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: union, monetary, european, growth, adjustment
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1993-10-29
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 052144019X
ISBN-13: 9780521440196

This volume analyzes the European Community’s transition to economic and monetary union (EMU) in the light of the agreements reached at Maastricht last year. It derives from a conference held by the CEPR and the Bank of Portugal, and includes among its contributors a number of noted academic commentators on European integration. The issues addressed in the volume include: the relationship between a common currency and inflation convergence; the effects of monetary unification on Europe’s increasingly integrated financial markets and fiscal systems; and EMU’s implications f

Authors:Jean-Pierre Danthine, Francesco Giavazzi, Xavier Viv
Publisher: Centre for Economic Policy Research
Keywords: european, monitoring, deregulation, integration, banking, future
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 1999-11
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 1898128383
ISBN-13: 9781898128380

The European banking industry is in a state of turmoil. The pace of mergers and acquisitions has accelerated across different banking sectors and within the same sector. At the same time, the demise of banks already in trouble has accelerated. This report analyzes what lies behind the historic segmentation of EU financial markets because a clear view about these issues is needed to predict the changes that EMU will bring about. The authors examine the policy implications of these changes and propose measures to address the problems that may be encountered.

Authors:David Begg, Francesco Giavazzi, Jurgen Von Hagen, Cha
Publisher: Centre for Economic Policy Research
Keywords: european, integration, monitoring, right, getting, game, emu
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 1997-12
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 189812826X
ISBN-13: 9781898128267

By spring 1998, agreement must be reached on the first group of countries to participate in economic and monetary union (EMU). This report looks at this final stage of the transition to monetary union. Written by a team of distinguished European academics, it discusses the best time to set the final conversion rates between EU currencies and the Euro. The authors consider whether the current ERM rule should continue to operate between the announcement and the start of EMU. They also assess when the new exchange rate system (EMS-2) designed to link "ins" and "pre-ins" should sta

Authors:Lynne Warren, Francesco Bonami, Francesco Bonami,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: koons, jeff
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-07-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0300141947
ISBN-13: 9780300141948

In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute; worked as a studio assistant to his hero, painter Ed Paschke, for $1 an hour; and socialized with many of the city’s most talented artists. This handsome book takes a fresh look at the rise and career of Jeff Koons, who is now arguably one of the world’s most famous artists.  Koons collaborated extensively on this book, which accompanies the first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. in 16 years and offers a survey of nearly thirty years of his work, beginning with

Authors:Francesco Casetti, Francesco Casetti, Thomas Kelso,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: cinema, theories
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1999
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292712073
ISBN-13: 9780292712072

The study of film entered a new era after World War II, as cinema became an acceptable focus for intellectual inquiry. The many ways in which cinema has been imagined, studied, and discussed in the last fifty years are the subject of this comprehensive overview of film theory in the United States and Europe since 1945. Francesco Casetti groups his essays around principal movements in film studies. In the first part of the book, he reviews the attempts at defining the "essence" of cinema during the 1950s. Then he explores disciplinary approaches to cinema--psychological, sociological, semioti