"This book provides a much-needed detailed analysis of the evolution of Europe over the last decade, as well as a discussion about the path of reform that has been trodden in the aftermath of the financial crisis. It offers a multidisciplinary view of the E(M)U and captures the main factors that...

Die Ursachen der beiden größten ökonomischen Katastrophen in den letzten 100 Jahren – die Weltwirtschaftskrise in den 1930er-Jahren und die Finanzkrise seit 2008 – gleichen einander wie ein Ei dem anderen. Beide entstanden infolge eines krassen Kreditbooms, dubioser Bankpraktiken sowie...

Robert Fritzsch provides an institutional economic analysis of the Great Recession. The author shows that institutions matter as determinants of crisis resilience - however in a different way than predicted by the prominent theories of Olson (1982) and North, Wallis, Weingast (2009), as the...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: EMU’s Asymmetrical Institutional Design -- Chapter 3: Enhancing EMU’s Fiscal Arm: Towards Stronger Regulatory Surveillance -- Chapter 4: Building Central Financial Assistance Capacities -- Chapter 5: Developing an Emu Lending Of Last Resort Capacity --...

Before the crash -- The trickster in the North : in the world of colonizers and colonized -- The colonial exhibition in Tivoli : racism and colonial others -- The desire to become modern : forging of Icelandic subject -- The big bite : the economic miracle in Iceland -- Warehouse of cultural...