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From the Lisbon Strategy to Europe 2020 and Beyond

Rethinking the Rationale for a Common European Economic Policy

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

During the last couple of years the lack of competitiveness of many European economies has been brutally exposed. This book presents a detailed analysis of the failed attempt of the European Commission to enhance competitiveness and rethinks the rationale for delegating competences to the EU. [...]

EU External Action and the CFSP – Well-Equipped for the Fast-Pacing Geo-Economic World?

Schriften zum Internationalen Wirtschaftsrecht

Across all continents, the EU operates in a wide range of fields. As a unique player on the global stage, the EU, as a supranational organisation, acts in many respects on a par with other states. Particularly in the area of international trade, the EU has developed a strong and recognisable profile. Within the…

Strategies of the State towards the Informal Economy

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

Around the world developed and developing economies alike are struggling with the persisting nature of the informal economy. The policy advice given to politicians by development economists today is rather generic with no regard to country-specific factors. This research develops a policy advice framework for…

Economic Analysis of a Great Recession

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Asset price bubbles refer to both real estate bubbles and stock market bubbles. The collapse of an asset price bubble means that asset prices go down while liabilities do not. As a result, millions of people have impaired balance sheets. Put another way, millions of people are in debt. In order to reduce their…

Modeling China‘s Economic Growth Path

A Dynamic Analysis of Pension and Tax Reforms

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

The fast economic growth of China in the last three decades has impressed economists around the globe. How did China succeed to keep a high growth rate in such a long period? Which costs and risks could the rapid development of China imply? How could the historical success be maintained in the foreseeable future? A…

HOPONOMICS: Market analysis applied to the hop industry 1980–2020

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Hoponomics provides an unprecedented look into the hop industry between 1980 and 2020 and introduces the topic most taboo within the industry, how and why the market works the way it does.

With a half century of combined experience across varying segments of the industry, the authors analyze the inner…

Policy Coherence and Economic Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe

The Great Transformation

POLITICA – Schriftenreihe zur politischen Wissenschaft

Starting from the observation that some of the East European post-socialist governments produced coherent reform policies which successfully transformed their countries’ economies into capitalist ones, while others lingered behind muddling through half hearted reforms, this paper takes a closer look at how these…

The Impact of Environmental Policy on Economic Indicators

Moving from Global to Sectoral and Regional Perspectives

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

Umwelt-, Energie- und Klimapolitik haben in jüngerer Zeit einen immer höheren Stellenwert erhalten. Dies ist nicht zuletzt den neuesten klimatologischen Forschungsergebnissen und dem daraus entstandenen gesteigerten Umweltbewusstsein in der Bevölkerung geschuldet. Politikansätze zur Bekämpfung der…

Contribution of the Clean Development Mechanism to Sustainable Energy Production

The Energy Sector in the West African Economic and Monetary Union - Case Study: Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

The Kyoto Protocol encompasses flexible mechanisms, which allow the use of the world’s cheapest possibilities for emission reductions. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows for the generation of emissions credits through emission reduction projects, is the only mechanism that involves developing…

Externe Effekte makroökonomischer Schocks bei flexiblen Wechselkursen

Der Beitrag der „Neuen monetären Außenwirtschaftstheorie“

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Gerhard Ressel untersucht in seiner Arbeit die Auswirkungen von makroökonomischen Schocks bei flexiblen Wechselkursen in Zwei-Länder-Modellen. Sein Ziel ist es dabei insbesondere, den Beitrag der „Neuen monetären Außenwirtschaftstheorie“ (New Open Economy Macroeconomics) zu bewerten und zu…