This paper reviews and summarizes the literature that has concentrated on budget consolidations and their fiscal and economic effects. The issue of fiscal adjustments has again gained importance due to the recent economic crisis and the resulting fiscal imbalances. The existing literature shows...

This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events...

The three chapters of this dissertation discuss what role complexity plays in different fields of international economics. First, we discuss the role of complex information in decision making of multinational companies. On the one hand, we test the hypotheses by Oldenski (2012) that affiliate...