Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The traditional distinction between the core and the periphery is becoming ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. From Dr Jerome Booth. Sir, Many people suffer from the delusion I call core periphery disease. This is the ...
From 1980 to 2004 joining the European Union was quite popular among large sections of the populations in concerned countries. Portuguese, Greek and Spanish citizens regarded their countries’ ...
The impact of international trade is studied in a general equilibrium model in which firms engage in oligopolistic competition and linkage effects are present. Results are derived analytically. If ...
My son is in love and engaged to be married. Trouble is, he wants the two families to fall in love as well. He's proposing a five-day camping trip so we can bond "au naturel." In Yiddish, there's a ...
Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? Myanmar’s punctuated economic development since gaining independence in 1948 has often been framed through the shackles of ethnic conflict, ...
Interbank markets are often characterized in terms of a core–periphery network structure, with a highly interconnected core of banks holding the market together and a periphery of banks connected ...
Network analyses of financial markets often tend to come up with the same result. Whether they look at interbank lending, deposits, credit insurance or derivatives exposures, the pattern is a ...
Software systems are among the most complex of the artifacts that our species creates. In the design, use, and evolution of such systems, a dynamic tension exists between what I have come to call the ...