Die ungleiche Verteilung natürlicher, Finanz-, und Wissensgüter unterstützen eine ungleichmässige Entwicklung heutiger und zukünftiger Generationen. Die zunehmende Globalisierung und der Klimawandel forcieren hierbei die Probleme. Als Ökonom stellt sich nun die Frage, ob man in die...

Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have reacted with a raft of new regulations to the US subprime mortgage crisis. The article argues that while these new rules actually touch many of the incentive and information problems which were instrumental in creating the crisis, they only address...

Europeans have a tendency to call the financial crisis a US problem, or a crisis precipitated by the "Anglo-Saxon" model. The data suggest otherwise. Moreover, the corporate sector in Europe has a much lower capacity to finance investment from internal sources of funds, which implies that a...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have succeeded in rapidly reducing their current account deficits despite fixed exchange rates. Which factors have played a major role in this? What similarities, and what differences, do the Baltic states show compared to Greece and Portugal? What insights can be...