The issue of whether the public sector enhances or retards long-run economic growth has been debated passionately in recent years. In this paper we use meta-analysis to shed light on the issue. A sample of 93 published studies, yielding 123 meta-observations, is used to examine the robustness of...

The financial trilemma states that financial stability, financial integration and national financial policies are incompatible. Any two of the three objectives can be combined but not all three; one has to give. This paper develops a model to underpin the financial trilemma. Our findings for...

Die Überwindung der Wirtschaftskrise und des dadurch entstandenen Haushaltsdefizits ist nicht die einzige Herausforderung für die neue Bundesregierung: Vor allem muss es ihr gelingen, ungenutzte Wachstumspotentiale zu entfalten - durch Investitionen in Bildung und Forschung, durch die...