Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...

1. Introduction -- 2. State Intervention and Principle of Proportionality -- 3. Literature Review – Global Economics Leading Up To and Resulting From the 2007 Economic Crisis -- 4. Interventions by Governments -- 5. Research Methods -- 6. Overview of EU Responses to the Global Economic Crisis...

The main objective of this book has been to carry out research into the definition of industrial policy and its goals; to evaluate previously-introduced policies and instruments; and to identify the future challenges for and features of a modern EU industrial policy. A modern industrial policy...

This book explores the issue of private sector over-indebtedness following the recent financial crisis. It addresses the various challenges for policymakers, investors and economic agents affected by applied remedial policies as the private non-financial sector in Europe continues to face...

The recent financial and political crises in the world sent severe shocks through emerging economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). Although these crises are regrettable events that caused so much suffering to so many people, we must embrace the...

This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, the authors characterize the response of output to fiscal consolidations and expansions in the small Euro-area open economies...

Abstract: Die Kohäsionspolitik wird wie alle anderen Ausgaben des EU-Haushalts zusammen mit der Einnahmeseite in die gegenwärtige umfassende Generalüberprüfung des EU-Finanzsystems einbezogen. Die Studie will zu dieser Überprüfung durch Behandlung einer doppelten und interdependenten...

Abstract: Die Autorin beantwortet die Frage nach dem geeigneten ordnungspolitischen Rahmen umweltverträglicher Elektrizitätsversorgung durch wirtschaftspolitische Handlungsempfehlungen, die weit über bestehende normative Ansätze hinausgehen. Zugrunde liegt die empirische und...

Das Buch beantwortet ganz aktuell die wichtigsten Fragen zum BREXIT: Wie ist das historische BREXIT-Referendum in Großbritannien abgelaufen, welches sind die Hintergründe des anstehenden EU-Austritts und welche Folgen für Deutschland, Europa und die Weltwirtschaft sind absehbar? Die...

Philipp Mohl evaluates the macroeconomic effects of EU Cohesion Policy with the help of empirical methods. His findings indicate that in particular the part of EU Cohesion Policy which is spent for the poorest regions (the so-called Objective 1 funding) has a positive and statistically...