Richard Portes
Biographic Data
| ID | 763771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Portes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Portes |
| SIGNATURE | PORTES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8315-626X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus
Recent research on the organisation and growth of large settlements (both urban and non-urban) has prompted a reassessment of factors driving population aggregation. Systematic aerial and ground survey of the South Caucasus mega-fortress Dmanisis Gora, described here, contributes to the understanding of large fortress settlements in the South Caucasus (c. 1500-500 BC) as part of this wider debate. Substantial defensive walls and stone architectur…
Economic Policy 53
Economic Policy
Economic Policy
The determinants of cross-border equity flows
Economic Transformation in Central Europe
Journal Article Economic Transformation in Central Europe: A Progress Report. Get access Economic Transformation in Central Europe: A Progress Report. Edited by Portes(Richard). (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1993. Pp. xvi + 294. £23.50 paperback, US $40.00 paperback. ISBN 1 89812800 6.) Junior R. Davis Junior R. Davis Heriot-Watt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journ…
Foundations of an Open Economy
Journal Article Foundations of an Open Economy: Trade Laws and Institutions for Eastern Europe. Get access Foundations of an Open Economy: Trade Laws and Institutions for Eastern Europe. Edited by (L. ALAN) Winters. (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1995. Pp. xiii + 223. £16.95 paperback, US $24.95 paperback. ISBN 1 898128 162.)European Union Trade with Eastern Europe: Adjustment and Opportunities. Edited by Faini (Riccardo) andPc- Rt…
Transformation Traps
Journal Article Transformation Traps Get access Richard Portes Richard Portes Birkbeck College, University of London and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 426, 1 September 1994, Pages 1178–1189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235075 Published: 01 September 1994
External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy
External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy: The European Experience Get access External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy: The European Experience. Edited by George Alogoskoufis, Lucas Papademos and Richard Portes. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi + 384. £35.00, US $59.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 40527 0.) K. Alec Chrystal K. Alec Chrystal City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: …
Blueprints for Exchange-Rate Management
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. List of Conference Participants. M. Miller, B. Eichengreen, and R. Portes, Editors' Introduction. Historical Perspectives: A. Giovannini, How Do Fixed-Exchange-Rate Regimes Work? Evidence from the Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and the EMS. B. Eichengreen, Discussion. S.N. Broadberry, Monetary Interdependence and Deflation in Britain and the United States between the Wars. P. Turner, Discussion. Theoretical…
Development vs Debt
Richard Portes' article examines the lessons which the debt crises of the 1930's have for the 1980's. The article also examines a recent event — changes in Eastern Europe — and analyses the possible likely effects it can have on Latin American countries in the next decade. RESUME Le développement contre le déficit: le passé et le future L'article de Richard Portes fait l'étude des leçons à retenir de la crise des années 1930 et à utiliser pour le…
Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management
Journal Article Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management Get access Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management. Edited by MARCUS MILLER, BARRY EICHENGREEN and RICHARD PORTES. (London and San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 329. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0124970605.) M. J. Artis M. J. Artis University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 402, 1 September 1990…
Le débat du Débat
Threats to International Financial Stability
Les prêts internationaux dans l’entre-deux-guerres
This paper revises and extends our previous (1986) analysis of rates of return on sterling and dollar foreign loans on the 1920s. It analyses a larger sample of 250 dollar bonds and 125 sterling issues, covering the years 1920-1929. Internal rates of return adjusted for repurchases of discounted foreign bonds. The larger sample confirms the main conclusions of our original study and enables us to paint a richer picture of interwar experience with…
Tests of the Chronic Shortage Hypothesis
In the analysis of econometric disequilibrium models, it is common to test the n ull hypothesis of "equilibrium" against the "disequilibrium" alternat ive. This paper tests the null hypothesis of "all-excess-demand"-tha all observations correspond to (positive) excess demand-against the alternative that permits excess demand of either sign. The auth ors use a test due to Rogers (1984), which their Monte Carlo experime nts suggest performs well in…
Global Macroeconomics
Journal Article Global Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and Cooperation Get access Global Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and Cooperation. Edited by RALPH C. BRYANT and RICHARD PORTES. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, in association with the IEA & the Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1987. Pp. xix + 347. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 333 42350 X.) Frederick van der Ploeg Frederick van der Ploeg London School of Economics and Political Science Search for oth…
"Reply to E. Dirksen, "The Control of Inflation? Errors in the Interpretation of CPE Data
Mr Dirksen is trying to make a meal out of rather little, in the manner of cuisine minceur. But the raw materials are skimpy and not top quality, and the result is not to my taste. Particularly unpalatable is the thin sauce of not to say disingenuous, language, liberally applied. I simply cannot have made errors in the interpretation of CPE data that were unavailable at the time I wrote (1976). Even had I thought the Holzman index sufficiently im…
Les racines économiques de la crise
La politique du taux de change en Hongrie, 1972-1976
Exchange Rate Policy hi Hungary, 1972-1976. This paper argues that additional revaluation of the forint in 1973-74, over and above that which was actually implemented, could have helped to stabilise the domestic price level. This policy would also have reduced the need for intervention in the form of the grossly excessive and specific export taxes and import subsidies actually used, without significantly worsening the balance of trade deficit. Th…
Est, Ouest et Sud
Cet article débute par un historique du rôle de l'Europe de l'Est dans l'économie mondiale, suivi d'une analyse de la situation actuelle, l'accent étant porté sur les relations économiques Est-Ouest. L'expansion rapide du commerce est- européen a commencé dans les années cinquante, mais il ne s'est développé dans de fortes proportions que depuis une décennie (et a été surestimé en raison des disparités de prix). On s'interroge sur les causes de c…
Effets de la crise sur les pays de l'Est
Portes Richard. Effets de la crise sur les pays de l'Est. In: Revue économique, volume 30, n°6, 1979. pp. 1067-1114
The Demand for Money and For Consumption Goods in Centrally Planned Economies
HIS article gives estimates of household demand for money and savings functions for four centrally planned economies (CPEs). The data are post-war annual time series for Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary, and Poland. The estimation of these functions characterizing the demand side of the consumption goods market is a part of the empirical component of our research into macroeconomic equilibrium in CPEs. The supply side of the consumption goods mar…
Trade, Technology, and Leverage
Samuel P. Huntington, Franklyn Holzman, Richard Portes, John W. Kiser, Maurice J. Mountain, Robert E. Klitgaard, Trade, Technology, and Leverage: Economic Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, No. 32 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 63-106
Macroeconomic Models with Quantity Rationing
Journal Article Macroeconomic Models with Quantity Rationing Get access John Muellbauer, John Muellbauer Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard Portes Richard Portes Birkbeck CollegeHarvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 352, 1 December 1978, Pages 788–821, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231979 Published…
Macroeconomic Models with Quantity Rationing
Journal Article Macroeconomic Models with Quantity Rationing Get access John Muellbauer, John Muellbauer Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard Portes Richard Portes Birkbeck CollegeHarvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 352, 1 December 1978, Pages 788–821, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231979 Published…
Trade, Technology, and Leverage
Samuel P. Huntington, Franklyn Holzman, Richard Portes, John W. Kiser, Maurice J. Mountain, Robert E. Klitgaard, Trade, Technology, and Leverage: Economic Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, No. 32 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 63-106
Transformation Traps
Journal Article Transformation Traps Get access Richard Portes Richard Portes Birkbeck College, University of London and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 426, 1 September 1994, Pages 1178–1189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235075 Published: 01 September 1994
Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management
Journal Article Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management Get access Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management. Edited by MARCUS MILLER, BARRY EICHENGREEN and RICHARD PORTES. (London and San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 329. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0124970605.) M. J. Artis M. J. Artis University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 402, 1 September 1990…
External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy
External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy: The European Experience Get access External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy: The European Experience. Edited by George Alogoskoufis, Lucas Papademos and Richard Portes. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi + 384. £35.00, US $59.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 40527 0.) K. Alec Chrystal K. Alec Chrystal City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: …
East Europe's Debt to the West
A policy analysis of East--West economic interdependence examines the implications that capital export into Eastern Europe has for the new economic order. Although the East European debt is smaller than that of non-OPEC less-developed countries (LDCs), it is significant in the Euromarket. As an oil exporter, Eastern Europe's debts are not the result of oil deficits and must be considered to have different economic, political, and strategic bases.…
Global Macroeconomics
Journal Article Global Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and Cooperation Get access Global Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and Cooperation. Edited by RALPH C. BRYANT and RICHARD PORTES. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, in association with the IEA & the Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1987. Pp. xix + 347. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 333 42350 X.) Frederick van der Ploeg Frederick van der Ploeg London School of Economics and Political Science Search for oth…
Est, Ouest et Sud
Cet article débute par un historique du rôle de l'Europe de l'Est dans l'économie mondiale, suivi d'une analyse de la situation actuelle, l'accent étant porté sur les relations économiques Est-Ouest. L'expansion rapide du commerce est- européen a commencé dans les années cinquante, mais il ne s'est développé dans de fortes proportions que depuis une décennie (et a été surestimé en raison des disparités de prix). On s'interroge sur les causes de c…
The Control of Inflation
Economics is difficult enough, even if one manages to avoid studies in applied economics. Such efforts are inherently unreliable and incoinclusive. It is much simpler to model any single set of institutions and functional relations, using the data they generate to test hypotheses derived from the model, than to compare two different environments with each other in any useful way. With a model, one has an essential extra degree of freedom-one cons…
The strategy and tactics of economic decentralization
(1972). The strategy and tactics of economic decentralization. Soviet Studies: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 629-658
The Soviet Quest for Economic Efficiency. Issues, Controversies, and Reforms
Journal Article G. R. Feiwel. The Soviet Quest for Economic Efficiency. Issues, Controversies, and Reforms Get access The Soviet Quest for Economic Efficiency. Issues, Controversies, and Reforms. By G. R. Feiwel. (New York and London: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Pp. xx + 420. 146s.) R. D. Portes R. D. Portes Balliol College, Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 78, Issue 312…
Input Demand Functions for the Profit-Constrained Sales-Maximizer
Several recent papers (Bear [4], Ferguson [6], Russell [11], Winch [16]) have elaborated upon the accepted analysis of the profit-maximizing firm's demand for inputs (as presented, e.g., in Hicks [8, ch. 7] and Samuelson [12, ch. 4]).2 As one might expect in such a wellexplored field, possible cases have drawn a good deal of attention: when could the demand for an input increase with an increase in its price, or decrease as the firm's output incr…
Mathematics and Computers in Soviet Economic Planning. Yale Russian and East European Studies 5
Journal Article J. P. Hardt, M. Hoffenberg, N. Kaplan and H. S. Levine. Mathematics and Computers in Soviet Economic Planning. Yale Russian and East European Studies 5 Get access Mathematics and Computers in Soviet Economic Planning. Yale Russian and East European Studies 5. Edited by J. P. Hardt, M. Hoffenberg, N. Kaplan and H. S. Levine. (New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press, 1967. Pp. xxii + 298. 67s. 6d.) R. D. Portes R. D…
The Soviet Quest for Economic Efficiency. Issues, Controversies, and Reforms
Journal Article G. R. Feiwel. The Soviet Quest for Economic Efficiency. Issues, Controversies, and Reforms Get access The Soviet Quest for Economic Efficiency. Issues, Controversies, and Reforms. By G. R. Feiwel. (New York and London: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Pp. xx + 420. 146s.) R. D. Portes R. D. Portes Balliol College, Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 78, Issue 312…
The strategy and tactics of economic decentralization
(1972). The strategy and tactics of economic decentralization. Soviet Studies: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 629-658
Planning and Market Relations
The Control of Inflation
Economics is difficult enough, even if one manages to avoid studies in applied economics. Such efforts are inherently unreliable and incoinclusive. It is much simpler to model any single set of institutions and functional relations, using the data they generate to test hypotheses derived from the model, than to compare two different environments with each other in any useful way. With a model, one has an essential extra degree of freedom-one cons…
East Europe's Debt to the West
A policy analysis of East--West economic interdependence examines the implications that capital export into Eastern Europe has for the new economic order. Although the East European debt is smaller than that of non-OPEC less-developed countries (LDCs), it is significant in the Euromarket. As an oil exporter, Eastern Europe's debts are not the result of oil deficits and must be considered to have different economic, political, and strategic bases.…
The Demand for Money and For Consumption Goods in Centrally Planned Economies
HIS article gives estimates of household demand for money and savings functions for four centrally planned economies (CPEs). The data are post-war annual time series for Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary, and Poland. The estimation of these functions characterizing the demand side of the consumption goods market is a part of the empirical component of our research into macroeconomic equilibrium in CPEs. The supply side of the consumption goods mar…
Trade, Technology, and Leverage
Samuel P. Huntington, Franklyn Holzman, Richard Portes, John W. Kiser, Maurice J. Mountain, Robert E. Klitgaard, Trade, Technology, and Leverage: Economic Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, No. 32 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 63-106
Macroeconomic Models with Quantity Rationing
Journal Article Macroeconomic Models with Quantity Rationing Get access John Muellbauer, John Muellbauer Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard Portes Richard Portes Birkbeck CollegeHarvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 352, 1 December 1978, Pages 788–821, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231979 Published…
La politique du taux de change en Hongrie, 1972-1976
Exchange Rate Policy hi Hungary, 1972-1976. This paper argues that additional revaluation of the forint in 1973-74, over and above that which was actually implemented, could have helped to stabilise the domestic price level. This policy would also have reduced the need for intervention in the form of the grossly excessive and specific export taxes and import subsidies actually used, without significantly worsening the balance of trade deficit. Th…
Est, Ouest et Sud
Cet article débute par un historique du rôle de l'Europe de l'Est dans l'économie mondiale, suivi d'une analyse de la situation actuelle, l'accent étant porté sur les relations économiques Est-Ouest. L'expansion rapide du commerce est- européen a commencé dans les années cinquante, mais il ne s'est développé dans de fortes proportions que depuis une décennie (et a été surestimé en raison des disparités de prix). On s'interroge sur les causes de c…
Effets de la crise sur les pays de l'Est
Portes Richard. Effets de la crise sur les pays de l'Est. In: Revue économique, volume 30, n°6, 1979. pp. 1067-1114
"Reply to E. Dirksen, "The Control of Inflation? Errors in the Interpretation of CPE Data
Mr Dirksen is trying to make a meal out of rather little, in the manner of cuisine minceur. But the raw materials are skimpy and not top quality, and the result is not to my taste. Particularly unpalatable is the thin sauce of not to say disingenuous, language, liberally applied. I simply cannot have made errors in the interpretation of CPE data that were unavailable at the time I wrote (1976). Even had I thought the Holzman index sufficiently im…
Les racines économiques de la crise
Les prêts internationaux dans l’entre-deux-guerres
This paper revises and extends our previous (1986) analysis of rates of return on sterling and dollar foreign loans on the 1920s. It analyses a larger sample of 250 dollar bonds and 125 sterling issues, covering the years 1920-1929. Internal rates of return adjusted for repurchases of discounted foreign bonds. The larger sample confirms the main conclusions of our original study and enables us to paint a richer picture of interwar experience with…
Tests of the Chronic Shortage Hypothesis
In the analysis of econometric disequilibrium models, it is common to test the n ull hypothesis of "equilibrium" against the "disequilibrium" alternat ive. This paper tests the null hypothesis of "all-excess-demand"-tha all observations correspond to (positive) excess demand-against the alternative that permits excess demand of either sign. The auth ors use a test due to Rogers (1984), which their Monte Carlo experime nts suggest performs well in…
Global Macroeconomics
Journal Article Global Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and Cooperation Get access Global Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and Cooperation. Edited by RALPH C. BRYANT and RICHARD PORTES. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, in association with the IEA & the Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1987. Pp. xix + 347. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 333 42350 X.) Frederick van der Ploeg Frederick van der Ploeg London School of Economics and Political Science Search for oth…
Threats to International Financial Stability
Development vs Debt
Richard Portes' article examines the lessons which the debt crises of the 1930's have for the 1980's. The article also examines a recent event — changes in Eastern Europe — and analyses the possible likely effects it can have on Latin American countries in the next decade. RESUME Le développement contre le déficit: le passé et le future L'article de Richard Portes fait l'étude des leçons à retenir de la crise des années 1930 et à utiliser pour le…
Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management
Journal Article Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management Get access Blueprints for Exchange Rate Management. Edited by MARCUS MILLER, BARRY EICHENGREEN and RICHARD PORTES. (London and San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 329. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0124970605.) M. J. Artis M. J. Artis University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 402, 1 September 1990…
Le débat du Débat
Blueprints for Exchange-Rate Management
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. List of Conference Participants. M. Miller, B. Eichengreen, and R. Portes, Editors' Introduction. Historical Perspectives: A. Giovannini, How Do Fixed-Exchange-Rate Regimes Work? Evidence from the Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and the EMS. B. Eichengreen, Discussion. S.N. Broadberry, Monetary Interdependence and Deflation in Britain and the United States between the Wars. P. Turner, Discussion. Theoretical…
External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy
External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy: The European Experience Get access External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy: The European Experience. Edited by George Alogoskoufis, Lucas Papademos and Richard Portes. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi + 384. £35.00, US $59.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 40527 0.) K. Alec Chrystal K. Alec Chrystal City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: …
Transformation Traps
Journal Article Transformation Traps Get access Richard Portes Richard Portes Birkbeck College, University of London and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 426, 1 September 1994, Pages 1178–1189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235075 Published: 01 September 1994
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