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Book The Economic Crisis and Governance in the European Union

Download or read book The Economic Crisis and Governance in the European Union written by Javier Bilbao-Ubillos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the way in which the financial crisis that began in the US spread to the economy of the European Union. It takes a critical look at the measures adopted by EU institutions in response to that crisis, seeking to explain the rationale behind them, their context, their development and why different exit strategies were not adopted. In doing this, the book makes comparisons with the measures adopted by institutions in the US and the UK. As the crisis has shown that the financial supervision frameworks prevailing in 2007 were not fully able to deal with the largest financial crisis in history, this volume also reviews the proposals that have been designed to reform the supervisory architecture in financial services in the EU. The book concludes that the EU member states under most pressure from financial markets do suffer from intrinsic problems, but that the economic effects of the crisis have been exacerbated by shortcomings in economic governance within the EU. This work will be highly relevant to policy makers and scholars looking at EU integration, finance and market regulation.

Book The Spanish Economy

Download or read book The Spanish Economy written by J. Boscá and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the pattern of growth of the Spanish economy in the last few decades, and studies the causes of its labour productivity, and the special features characterising business cycles in Spain.

Book Infinite Suburbia

    Book Details:
  • Author : MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2018-03-13
  • ISBN : 1616896701
  • Pages : 782 pages

Download or read book Infinite Suburbia written by MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Book The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative

Download or read book The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative written by Xavier Dapena and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a spirit of community and collective action, this volume offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements. Developed during the critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic and global lockdown, the volume and its chapters reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the comic. They employ a cultural studies approach with different theoretical frameworks ranging from debates within comics studies, film and media theory, postcolonialism, feminism, economics, multimodality, aging, aesthetics, memory studies, food studies, and sound studies, among others. Scholars and students working in these areas will find the book to be an insightful and impactful resource.

Book From the Theater to the Plaza

Download or read book From the Theater to the Plaza written by Matthew I. Feinberg and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavapiés - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing. Poised at the intersection of theatre studies and cultural geography, this innovative study sketches its physical and imaginary contours. In From the Theater to the Plaza Matthew Feinberg guides readers on a journey through the development of the theatre, as both art and space, in Lavapiés. Offering a detailed analysis of dramatic texts and productions, performance spaces, urban planning documents, and the cultural activities of squatters, Feinberg sheds new light on the lead-up to Spain’s economic crisis and the emergence in 2011 of the 15-M anti-austerity protest movement. The result is a multidisciplinary account of how the spectacle of the contemporary city connects local, municipal, and global geographies. By linking the neighbourhood’s unique role as both a site and a subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, From the Theater to the Plaza offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the twenty-first-century city.

Book Scientific Methods for the Treatment of Uncertainty in Social Sciences

Download or read book Scientific Methods for the Treatment of Uncertainty in Social Sciences written by Jaime Gil-Aluja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the SIGEF conference, held at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Girona (Spain), 06-08 July, 2015. This edition of the conference has been presented with the slogan “Scientific methods for the treatment of uncertainty in social sciences”. There are different ways for dealing with uncertainty in management. The book focuses on soft computing theories and their role in assessing uncertainty in a complex world. It gives a comprehensive overview of quantitative management topics and discusses some of the most recent developments in all the areas of business and management in soft computing including Decision Making, Expert Systems and Forgotten Effects Theory, Forecasting Models, Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Sets, Modelling and Simulation Techniques, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms and Optimization and Control. The book might be of great interest for anyone working in the area of management and business economics and might be especially useful for scientists and graduate students doing research in these fields.

Book Did Basel III miss the point  The role of IFRS   s Other Comprehensive Income during the financial crisis

Download or read book Did Basel III miss the point The role of IFRS s Other Comprehensive Income during the financial crisis written by Kenneth Born and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broad consensus before the recent financial crisis was that the so called fair value accounting (FVA) improves transparency contrary to the historical cost model. Since 2008, the discussion has been on the root cause of the crisis, which lessons can be gleaned from it and how making the same mistakes again can be avoided. Basel III was implemented in order to improve the regulatory environment and was the response of regulators and politicians to public pressure and suspicions raised by the bail out programmes for banks. Consequently, an until then inconceivable number of new regulations and regulatory bodies were introduced. FVA was also blamed as part of the cause of the recent financial crisis. Available-for Sales (AfS) securities represent a major component of bank balance sheet asset. Gains and losses of AfS-positions are recorded within the Other Comprehensive Income (OCI). The OCI includes items which are not recognized (IAS 1.7) in income statements but increase or decrease a bank’s equity. The items also include income and expenses from Available-for-Sale positions (AfS) in accordance with IAS 39. On October 13th, 2008, an amendment to IAS 39 was published by IASB. This amendment did authorize the reclassification of assets. This amendment clearly demonstrates the influence of FVA on the value of assets of banks that apply IFRS. The main objective of this book is to verify the influence of OCI and whether the new regulations sufficiently capture this critical factor. Regulators should ensure that unrealized profits do not result in a capital drain. One way to assure this is to make OCI subject to a prudential filter and to deduct it from regulatory capital, which was the case until CRR became effective on January 1st, 2014 (CEBS guideline 2004). Basel III is even less strict than Basel II in that regard. Article 26(1) CRR clearly states that CET1 items must be recognized only in case they are really available to the financial institution for “unrestricted and immediate use to cover risks or losses as soon as these occur”. Nevertheless, with the introduction of the CRR, the prudential filter for positions that caused the financial crisis and led to poor capitalization of banks was not strengthened but actually removed. At present, CRR does not envisage any filter for unrealized gains parked in OCI.

Book Blessing and Curse of Intra EU Mobility

Download or read book Blessing and Curse of Intra EU Mobility written by Christiane Heimann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christiane Heimann provides insights on how the economic and political situation in Spain, Germany and the UK affects the institutional implementation of free labour movement and how mobile EU citizens navigate the institutional policies strategically. The study examines different profiles of EU citizens exercising free labour movement and shows ways of EU labour recruitment and transnational labour integration taking into account the institutional implementation of related EU policies. Intra-Community mobility policies and practices will be assessed in terms of their effectiveness for international recruitment and labour integration.

Book La primera gran crisis financiera del siglo XXI

Download or read book La primera gran crisis financiera del siglo XXI written by Guillermo de la Dehesa and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guillermo de la Dehesa aborda en este libro el tema que más preocupa hoy a economistas, políticos, sociólogos, periodistas..., y, sobre todo, a los ciudadanos de todo el mundo: La primera gran crisis financiera del siglo xxi. El autor considera que es la primera de este siglo porque la historia de las crisis financieras en la que existe constancia documentada se remonta a hace ochocientos años, pero explica que crisis de la gravedad de la actual son raras, habiendo pasado ochenta años desde la Gran Depresión a esta Gran Recesión. Guillermo de la Dehesa hace un análisis muy profundo y pormenorizado, pero instructivo y divulgativo a la vez, de la crisis actual, que dada la globalización financiera ha sido la más sincrónica y sistémica de la historia y que ha producido la primera recesión global. Profundiza en sus orígenes macroeconómicos, teóricos y político-económicos; aborda sus diversos detonantes y sus efectos devastadores sobre la mayoría de las familias y las empresas del mundo. Analiza las respuestas de política fiscal y monetaria de los gobiernos, que han sido mucho más rápidas y coordinadas que en la Gran Depresión, para concluir con una serie de propuestas y medidas que pasan por cambios necesarios en el marco en el que las entidades y mercados financieros se desenvuelven, y en una nueva regulación y una supervisión más eficiente y coordinada para evitar otra crisis sistémica. El último capítulo lo dedica a la situación especial de España, a la que ha sorprendido la crisis financiera –tras catorce años de un fuerte crecimiento en los que no se han hecho reformas de calado y a punto de comenzar su fase cíclica recesiva– con un déficit externo de tamaño histórico y un sector privado muy endeudado con ahorro extranjero, con una burbuja inmobiliaria desproporcionada y con un mercado laboral ineficiente. Una situación que hará que su recuperación de la tasa de crecimiento y del nivel de PIB potenciales sea más lenta y difícil que en otros países europeos.

Book Post Truth and Political Discourse

Download or read book Post Truth and Political Discourse written by David Block and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book David Block draws on analytical techniques from Critical Discourse Studies to critically investigate truth, truths, the propagation of ignorance and post-truth. Focusing on corrupt discourses and agnotology, he explores the role of anti-intellectualism, emotion and social media in the cultural creation, legitimisation and dissemination of ignorance. While encompassing analysis of discourses on Donald Trump, Brexit, climate change and the Alt-Right, Block furthers our understanding of this global phenomena by providing a revealing analysis of political communications relating to corruption scandals involving the Spanish conservative party. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines critical discourse and discourse historical approaches with nuanced political analysis, he uncovers the rhetorical means by which esoteric truths and misleading narratives about corruption are created and demonstrates how they become, in their turn, corrupt discourses. This original work offers fresh insights for scholars of Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Politics, Cultural and Communication Studies, and will also appeal to general readers with an interest in political communication and Spanish politics.

Book Crisis Econ  mica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guillermo Maya Muñoz
  • Publisher : Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 9587618335
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Crisis Econ mica written by Guillermo Maya Muñoz and published by Universidad Nacional de Colombia. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En el Siglo XX, la economía mundial, especialmente la estadounidense, empezó a cambiar desde los años setenta, pero realmente estos cambios se consolidaron en los ochenta. Antes, desde los años cincuenta, predominaba el llamado "Acuerdo de Detroit" (Palley 2007, 2010, abril), es decir, aquel alcanzado entre los sindicatos y las compañías automotrices de ligar los salarios a la productividad, en la ciudad de Detroit. La política, basada en este acuerdo, es la causa de la generación de los círculos virtuosos de crecimiento económico en los cincuenta y sesenta. La innovación tecnológica genera aumentos en la productividad, pari passu los salarios aumentan, al igual que la demanda agregada y el empleo, los que, a su vez, crean incentivos para la inversión, la productividad, y más aumentos salariales. Este Acuerdo comienza a ser desmontado desde los años ochenta, y la política económica repele el compromiso con el pleno empleo, con el fin de disciplinar el trabajo, y se compromete con el combate de la inflación para garantizar un mecanismo de precios eficiente que optimice la asignación de los factores. El modelo de crecimiento económico comienza a estar basado en la demanda, vía deuda e inflación (burbuja), de los activos, no en el crecimiento de los salarios, cuyo crecimiento se reprime, mientras los ingresos crecen sin obstáculos al liberalizar las tasas de interés. En este sentido, mientras, entre 1950-1982, el crecimiento de la deuda total en Estados Unidos estaba muy pegado al crecimiento del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB), desde 1982 hasta el 2008 comienzan a separarse de manera creciente.

Book M  xico y sus perspectivas para el siglo XXI

Download or read book M xico y sus perspectivas para el siglo XXI written by Barbara Klauke and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los grandes problemas de M  xico  Relaciones internacionales  T XII

Download or read book Los grandes problemas de M xico Relaciones internacionales T XII written by Blanca Torres and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A setenta años de su fundación, El Colegio de México publica esta serie de dieciséis volúmenes, titulada Los grandes problemas de México, en la que se analizan los mayores retos de la realidad mexicana contemporánea, con el fin de definir los desafíos que enfrentamos en el siglo XXI y proponer algunas posibles respuestas y estrategias para resolver nuestros problemas como nación. Serie: Los grandes problemas de México. Vol, XII Relaciones internacionales, diecinueve estudiosos y diplomáticos con amplia experiencia en la conducción de las relaciones con el exterior abordan algunos de estos asuntos y problemas, los retos que han implicado para México y la forma en la que se ha intentado hacerles frente. Se analizan algunos de los grandes temas de las relaciones internacionales, incluyendo aquellos que tiene o pueden tener repercusiones más significativas en México. También se abordan las principales relaciones con países o grupos de países, poniendo énfasis en la conducción de las mismas por parte del Estado mexicano, así como asuntos relacionados con el funcionamiento de algunos organismos internacionales y las posiciones que al respecto hemos mantenido hasta ahora ay las que podemos o debemos adoptar.

Book Two Eagles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ricardo Sheffield
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2023-04-19
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Two Eagles written by Ricardo Sheffield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the Sonoran Desert, two eagles meet face to face. One has flown from the north, the other from the south. After a long journey, they confront each other in a vast territory that unites two great countries that, like the eagles, are not as different as they seem. Two hundred years after the beginning of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, Ricardo Sheffield takes a look at the shared history of both nations. He considers questions such as: • What was life like for the Native Americans? • When did some decide to follow an unknown path south, leaving others to stay behind? • What unites the lives of Mexicans with those living in the United States of America? • What have been the moments of greatest tension between the two countries? With a distinctive voice full of irony, humor, and popular sayings, the author traces the history of these two great powers—from their common beginnings with the Clovis culture hunting mammoths to the civil wars of both countries, the promulgation of their respective constitutions, and their struggles to abolish slavery.

Book Formulaci  n y tratamiento psicol  gico en el siglo XXI

Download or read book Formulaci n y tratamiento psicol gico en el siglo XXI written by Eiroá Orosa, Francisco José and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2017-03-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro pretende ser una guía de aprendizaje de formulación de casos en psicología clínica. Se incluyen indicaciones del proceso completo, desde la evaluación y diagnóstico hasta la implementación del tratamiento pasando, sobre todo, por el acceso a y la selección de la evidencia científica y experiencia clínica acumulada que nos puede llevar a la aplicación de las técnicas más adecuadas para cada caso. El objetivo del libro, tanto por su extensión como por su espíritu, no es ser una gran revisión de tratamientos en psicología clínica, sino una guía que muestre al lector las diversas fuentes de evidencia existentes, invitando al análisis crítico de la diversidad de enfoques en su uso, a la vez que instruya en el proceso de formulación y reporte de casos. Los capítulos del libro cuentan con ejemplos de casos clínicos reales y están diseñados de manera que el lector pueda entender la formulación de casos como un proceso ameno y comprensible.

Book Los grandes problemas de M  xico  Tomo 13  Pol  ticas p  blicas

Download or read book Los grandes problemas de M xico Tomo 13 Pol ticas p blicas written by José Luis Méndez, coordinador and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LA BANCA EXTRANJERA EN ESPA  A  1898 1921

Download or read book LA BANCA EXTRANJERA EN ESPA A 1898 1921 written by CARLOS TEJADA BERGADO and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este trabajo profundiza en la incidencia de la Banca Extranjera en España en el periodo estudiado, es decir, 1898-1921. Pero a partir de este conocimiento, se descubren los fundamentos que permitieron el nacimiento de una poderosa y solvente banca española. Además, se analizan los pro y los contra de su presencia en España y, por supuesto, las principales elementos que resultaron asimilables por la incipiente banca española.