In Deutschland fand keynesianische Wirtschaftspolitikihre Ausformulierung im „Stabilitäts- undWachstumsgesetz“ von 1967. Mit diesem prozesspolitischenGrundgesetz (K. Schiller) sollte dieaktive Rolle des Staates für eine stabile wirtschaftlicheEntwicklung festgeschrieben werden....

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar’s long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. Idescribe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, withdistinguished economists’ stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar’s goal is to show howeconomists work, but also...

The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms thatmerely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of tradetheory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical modeldue to Melitz (2003) has...

Over the last decade or so, addressing financial instability has become a policy priority. Despite the efforts made, policymakers are still a long way from developing a satisfactory operational framework. A major challenge complicating this task is the "fuzziness" with which financial...