Mortgage Refinancing

2003-11-19 Thread Trevor Evans
A few weeks ago someone on the list mentioned that data was available on the extent of mortgage refinancing in the US from the web site of Fannie Mae. I've just looked and can't find it. I'd be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. Trevor Evans Berlin

Re: enron and the rate of profit

2002-01-27 Thread Trevor Evans
for the adoption of a new category of 'operating earnings', which would include charges for the cost of share options. It cites an estimate that including the cost of corporate earnings would reduce coportate profits by 17%. Trevor Evans Berlin - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A further right turn in Nicaragua for the Sandinistas?

2001-11-11 Thread Trevor Evans
rhetoric when addressing workers or peasants. Nicaragua is effectively a protectorate of the IMF, and mass unemployment has taken a terrible toll on all organisations. The progressive initiatives that have taken place have been outside the FSLN. Trevor Evans - Original Message - From

Re: New text in Environmental Econ

2001-07-16 Thread Trevor Evans
Jan, Message about Bar-b-Que now received. Sorry to have missed the fun! The following note was just posted on the progressive economists list. I've never heard of the guy, and have no idea what his book is like. But recall that you teach the subject next term. I assume that the web reference

Re: Re: Re: question on trade _theory_

2001-04-25 Thread Trevor Evans
Hi Peter, I would be very interested to see a copy of your paper on trade theory. I teach a course on international economics and am always on the lookout for critical material. Thanks in advance! Best wishes Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. +49 30 612 3951 Email [EMAIL

Apologies

2001-04-11 Thread Trevor Evans
Sorry for boring pen-lers with private mail. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel Fax +49 30 612 3951 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dollarization

2001-01-17 Thread Trevor Evans
Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama do not have seats on the Federal Open Market Committee. Trevor Evans. -Original Message- From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 January 2001 00:41 Subject: [PEN-L:7020] dollarization from SLATE: The Wall

Share ownership in the US

2001-01-09 Thread Trevor Evans
directly or indirectly through pension or mutual funds. This would give a slightly different result. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel Fax +49 30 612 3951 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Free trade / WTO

2000-11-14 Thread Trevor Evans
available on the web. Thanks. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel Fax +49 30 612 3951 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: query

2000-10-15 Thread Trevor Evans
Of the intermediate texts I've seen, I thought the best was Peterson and Estenson, Income, Employment and Economic Growth (brought to my attention by pen-l) Trevor Evans. -Original Message- From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

International Economics texts

2000-09-19 Thread Trevor Evans
I need to recommend an International Economics textbook for students on a one semester postgraduate course. The main choice seems to be between Krugman/Obstfeld and Salvatore. I'd be grateful for any comments on which is the best (or least worse). Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin

Re: The unfinished 20th century

2000-07-29 Thread Trevor Evans
e a source for this. Is the rest worth reading? Trevor Evans Berlin

introductory micro text

2000-03-14 Thread Trevor Evans
I would be grateful for suggestions for a good (or least bad) introductory micro text. -- I think someone else asked a few months ago, but I regret that at the time I didn't note the answer, and I can't find it in the archives. With thanks. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel

Re: Query on Fed Flow of Funds data; is there documentation?

2000-02-07 Thread Trevor Evans
Guide to the Flow of Funds Accounts, used to be available from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 670 pages for $8.50. The edition I have is from 1993. Trevor Evans Berlin

[PEN-L:6332] Re: Re: Greens and War and Globalization...

1999-05-03 Thread Trevor Evans
become a party on the American model, increasingly common in Europe, where the leadership can say anything they want before the election and do anything they want afterwards? The division in the Greens is not confined to the leadership. It runs through the party at evey level. Trevor Evans Paul

[PEN-L:2716] Re: Re: Re. euro-query

1999-01-30 Thread Trevor Evans
Barkley, I do not rule out the emergence of a black market between euro zone currencies by definition, but due to the specific insitutional arrangements of the European System of Central Banks, namely that it guarantees to convert all member currencies at the official rate. Trevor Evans Paul

[PEN-L:2694] Re: Re: Re. euro-query

1999-01-28 Thread Trevor Evans
are fixed, euro-zone countries have ensured themselves against exchange-rate instability within the zone. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax: +49 30 612 3951 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2577] Re: Re: Re. euro-query

1999-01-25 Thread Trevor Evans
have hived off their obligation to exchange all member currencies that are presented at the official rate to commercial banks, and there is currently some dispute about the fees they can charge for retail transactions. But that is a different issue from the emergence of a black market. Trevor Evans P

[PEN-L:2576] Re: Re: Re: Re. euro-query

1999-01-25 Thread Trevor Evans
default didn't lead to any significant tensions within the exchange rate mechanism in the months immediately prior to the irrevocable locking of the currencies when the system was still vulnerable. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax: +49 30 612 3951 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2518] Re: Re: Re. euro-query

1999-01-24 Thread Trevor Evans
en one can always obtain the official rate from the European System of Central Banks? Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax: +49 30 612 3951 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2385] Re. euro-query

1999-01-21 Thread Trevor Evans
must be subject to political approval by the EU authorities. Even though the the current social-democratic governments in France, Italy and Germany are fiscally conservative, it is difficult to envisage them approving fines. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax: +49 30 612 3951

[PEN-L:731] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What are we doing here

1998-10-29 Thread Trevor Evans
system is therefore a myth. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax: +49 30 612 3951 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:1442] Wealth Effect?

1998-09-03 Thread Trevor Evans
boosted consumer spending by up to $225 bn over three years, or just over 1per cent of GDP. Even if the stock market were to decline by a further 30 per cent, it says, this would mean a loss of only 1 per cent of GDP, which would be serious but not catastrophic. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44

[PEN-L:263] URPE conference

1998-07-21 Thread Trevor Evans
Is there anyone driving from New York city to the URPE conference who might be able to give me along? Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax 49 0 612 3951 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:136] International economics

1998-07-07 Thread Trevor Evans
grateful. With thanks, Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax 49 30 612 3951 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The euro cometh

1998-03-02 Thread Trevor Evans
of the year. If there were a major financial crash in the second half of the year events could take an interesting turn. Trevor Evans.

Greenspan literature?

1998-02-27 Thread Trevor Evans
Try Steven K. Beckner, Back from the Brink; The Greespan years John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Trevor Evans.

URPE Summer Conference

1998-02-21 Thread Trevor Evans
Does anyone on pen-l know if the place and time of the URPE summer conference for this year has been set. Trevor Evans Berlin

EMU

1998-02-15 Thread Trevor Evans
There is a thoughtful article on EMU by Sam Aaronovitch and John Grahl, 'Building on Maastricht', in Peter Gowan and Perry Anderson (ed.), The Question of Europe, Verso, 1997. Trevor Evans.

US profitability

1997-10-30 Thread Trevor Evans
considerably below their level in the mid-1960s. Trevor Evans.

International Business Cycle Research

1997-10-27 Thread Trevor Evans
Does anyone on pen-l know if the Center for International Business Cycle Research, located at Colombia University in the early 1980s, is still in business, and if so, what its e-mail address is. Many thanks, Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax 49 30 612 3951 Email

[PEN-L:10306] NAFTA not just a trade organisation

1997-05-23 Thread Trevor Evans
1970-73 government) determined to give priority in international affairs to its (supposed) role as junior partner to the US. Trevor Evans Berlin

[PEN-L:10258] Re EU

1997-05-21 Thread Trevor Evans
. Trevor Evans Berlin

[PEN-L:10224] EU - Reply to Sid

1997-05-19 Thread Trevor Evans
it is more appropriate to push for democratic control at the level of the EU. Trevor Evans Berlin.

[PEN-L:10154] Re EU

1997-05-15 Thread Trevor Evans
that the EU establishes similar standards for all its member countries. Trevor Evans Berlin

[PEN-L:10086] profit boom

1997-05-14 Thread Trevor Evans
The piece on profit rates was most useful, but could Jim Devine say how the 'conventional rate of profit' is defined. Trevor Evans.

[PEN-L:9995] Re: Europe

1997-05-09 Thread Trevor Evans
democratic control of the economy in Western Europe, and preventing multinationals from playing off countries against each other, is through strengthening the EU. The key question is what type of EU. Perhaps that is what we should be discussing. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin tel

[PEN-L:8396] current events: increased job insecurity?

1997-01-30 Thread Trevor Evans
loyed that is crucial. But the normally brilliant FT seems to miss that point increased overtime is one of the main forms of flexibility which companies use, especially with male workers. Trevor Evans

[PEN-L:8246] Interest rates

1997-01-15 Thread Trevor Evans
bank intervention in money markets, and the need to finance the Reagan government's military-Keynesian spending in the 80s, which involved a major shift in the balance of supply and demand in global markets for money capital. Trevor Evans Paul LIncke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. Fax 49 30 612 3951

[PEN-L:8246] Interest rates

1997-01-15 Thread Trevor Evans
bank intervention in money markets, and the need to finance the Reagan government's military-Keynesian spending in the 80s, which involved a major shift in the balance of supply and demand in global markets for money capital. Trevor Evans Paul LIncke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. Fax 49 30 612 3951

[PEN-L:8156] Marx on interest rates

1997-01-10 Thread Trevor Evans
describes in some detail the movement of the market rate over the business cycle, he argues that not only the demand for money capital, but also the supply is related to the state of economic activity. I don't have Keynes to hand. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. Fax

[PEN-L:8144] Fiscal deficits and interest rates

1997-01-09 Thread Trevor Evans
articles on the question. Can any pen-l er enlighten me on what current progressive thinking is on the subject? Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. Fax: 49 30 612 3951 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:7404] Changes at IBD

1996-11-14 Thread Trevor Evans
tone." A section on finance should be re-examined to avoid "an unnecessarily neo-liberal tone."' The FT also carries details of a report to be published in March, in which the IBD's chief economist will argue that saving follows growth, and not the other way round. Trevor Evans Paul

[PEN-L:6469] Re: World Bank repudiates its history?

1996-10-04 Thread Trevor Evans
- and conflicts. Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. 49 30 612 3951 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:6123] Davidson, What determines investment

1996-09-11 Thread Trevor Evans
Comrades, I am trying to get the exact title, and if possible ISBN, for a book published about two years ago by M. E. Sharpe. It was edited by Paul Davidson, and its title was something like What determines investment? It has a bright green cover. I would be grateful for any help. Trevor