Structural unemployment, or persistently high levels of unemployment that do not follow the ups and downs of a typical business cycle, varies significantly across industrialized countries. In this CESifo volume, leading labor economists analyze the widely diverging patterns of long-term...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Still More Questions Than Answers -- 2 A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure -- 3 The Continent's High Unemployment: Possible Institutional Causes and Some Evidence -- 4 From Excess to Shortage-Recent...

In 2050, world population growth is predicted to come almost to a halt. Shortly thereafter it may well start to shrink. A major reason behind this shift is the fertility decline that has taken place in many developed countries. In this book, experts discuss the appropriateness and effectiveness...

Economic performance and stabilization policy in a monetary union with imperfect labor and goods' markets / Fabrizio Coricelli, Alex Cukierman, and Alberto Dalmazzo ; Discussant: Erkki Koskela -- Asymmetric transmission of monetary policy: what should the ECB do if one size does not fit all? /...

The trend toward privatization, which began with privatization experiments in the UK under Margaret Thatcher and the deregulation of the telecommunications sector in the United States, has attracted the attention of policymakers over the past two decades. Privatization is broadly supported by...

The sixteen essays in this book were written to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Richard Musgrave and to commemorate the tenth anniversary of CES, the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Musgrave is considered to be a founding father or modern public economics. He belongs...

The success of European monetary integration-what the editors of this CESifo volume call "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date"-is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a uniform monetary policy for...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States -- 3 Europe's Venture Capital Institutions Are Good Enough -- 4 Promoting Entrepreneurship -- 5 Innovations to Foster Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship -- 6 Europe:...

Economists disagree on what ails the economies of continental western Europe, which are widely perceived to be underperforming in terms of productivity and other metrics. Is it some deficiency in their economic systemin economic institutions or cultural attitudes? Is it some effect of their...

Intro -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 - Privatizing Network Industries -- 2 - Network Utilities in the United States: Sector Reforms without Privatization -- 3 - Privatization in Austria: Some Theoretical Reasons and Performance Measures -- 4 - Privatization in Denmark, 1980-2002 -- 5 -...