An environment for the activities of the International Monetary Fund (the IMF) has fundamentally changed over the two recent decades. The strong development of financial innovations as well as of financial globalisation was among major forces driving the change and shaping the economic growth...

Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialised economies. To combat this threat, the authors call for a global debt brake following the Swiss or German example. The debt brakes should be incorporated into national constitutions and monitored by independent...

Vom 9. bis 13. November findet in Doha/Qatar die vierte Ministerkonferenz der Welthandelsorganisation WTO statt. Gegenstand der Beratungen wird vornehmlich die Frage sein, ob die Eröffnung einer neuen Verhandlungsrunde über die weitere Liberalisierung des internationalen Handels konsensfähig...