Against the background of the euro-sceptic view many German economists expressed during the 1990ies and the traditional as well as modern debate on the optimum currency area the outcomes of the first ten years of the European Monetary Union are analysed. It is checked to what extent the concerns...

Exchange-rate strategies may be used to pursue the most varied objectives as instruments of development policy or of structural adjustment. The following article will examine the advantages and disadvantages of a number of exchange-rate policy options.

This paper deals with the question of what impact membership of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has had on small European states. We will also analyze whether or to what extent a large number of small member states affect the EMU itself when they vastly outnumber the large countries. We...

In the light of the current economic debt crisis within the Euro zone, the heterogeneity of EU members has becoming increasingly apparent. This heterogeneity is evident not only in some single macroeconomic variables but also in the level of economic integration with the other EU members....

Main description: Der Begriff Governance ist in den letzten Jahren fast ein Modewort geworden - oft benutzt, aber zumeist nicht klar definiert und daher recht unterschiedlich interpretierbar. Obwohl er als wissenschaftlicher Terminus aus den Wirtschaftswissenschaften stammt - im Wesentlichen...

Main description: Die seit Jahrzehnten weltweit stark wachsenden internationalen Handels- und Kapitalverflechtungen lassen die nationalen Wirtschaftsentwicklungen zunehmend interdependent werden. Welchen Herausforderungen ist unter diesen Umständen die nationale Wirtschaftspolitik ausgesetzt?...

The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has been more and more substituted by majority voting in order to speed up decision-making processes in a Union of 27 heterogeneous member states. A third possibility is now offered by...