This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

The U.S.-China conflict is threatening continued global economic prosperity and this has inspired a variety of predictions and prescriptions on the future global order. This paper proposes a light model of global governance not only to form international agreements across countries but also to...

Staatsverschuldung und Außenhandel wirken über verschiedene Kanäle auf die Entwicklung von Volkswirtschaften. Um die Wirkungsmechanismen zu eruieren, werden mikroökonomisch fundierte dynamische makroökonomische Modelle diskutiert. Zur Anwendung kommen Modelle überlappender Generationen. In...