"This innovative book focuses on the current global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories being used to guide policy. In so doing, it tackles the economic theories that have been used firstly to understand its causes and thereafter to contain the damage it has brought."...

Estimating the economic returns to public science investments has been a key topic in economics. However, while in particular microeconomic approaches have been proposed, only a few studies have tried estimating the macroeconomic effects of public science investments. In this paper, we propose a...

Diese Studie untersucht Migration und private Transfers im monetären makroökonomischen Kontext. Anhand theoretischer Modelle wird aufgezeigt, wie sich die Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Migrationsstrom und den damit verbundenen Transferleistungen der Migranten auf der einen Seite und anderen...

This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...