Dynamic Approaches to Global Economic Challenges : Festschrift in Honor of Karl Farmer

Introduction -- Real, Monetary and Fiscal Integration in the European Union: A Prototype Model of European Integration - The Case of Austria -- Trade Agreements and Regional Disparities -- Strategic Macroeconomic Policies in a Monetary Union -- Determinants of Maximum Sustainable Government Debt -- The Long Italian Stagnation and the Welfare Effects of Outsourcing -- Economic Growth, Technological Change, and Climate Policy: Status, Wealth Distribution, and Endogenous Economic Growth -- Technological Change in Information and Communication - Consequences for Science -- Elements of the Economics of the Very-Long Term - Functionalities, Structures, Mechanisms and Institutions -- Is There a First-Mover Advantage in the International Climate Policy?- Environmental Policy in an Open Economy: Refocusing Climate Policy to Address International Trade Spillover.