This working paper brings together assessments of the trilateral relations between China, the EU und the US from the disciplines of political science and economics. The first paper primarily addresses the following three issues: a) China's current development and prospects b) EU-China relations,...

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the...

This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the United States at home and around the globe...

Die Beiträge in diesem Band sind das Ergebnis eines Workshops der unter dem Titel: "East European Integration and New Division of Labour in Europe" am 10. und 11. April 1997 am Institut Arbeit und Technik in Gelsenkirchen stattgefunden hat. Zielsetzung war eine kritische Diskussion zu den...

This thesis combines five chapters, all of which have been motivated by the exciting and intense policy discussions that have been dominating the political and economic landscape in recent years. It covers European bank regulation and its effects on financial stability and economic welfare, the...

This thesis analyzes the impact of specific structural breaks, e.g., product innovation, and regulatory interventions in European wholesale electricity markets. Unlike other markets such as those for convenience goods, network-bound industries, including railways, telecommunications, gas and...

The three essays of this dissertation contribute to the measurement of European economic integration and investigate the welfare effects of the European countries. The first study presents a newly developed index – the EU Index – which measures the extent of economic integration into the...