Introduction: 1 Financial Aspects in Energy: The European Perspective -- Markets: 2 The Development of Energy Markets in Europe -- 3 Renewables in the Energy Market -- 4 The CO2 -Trading Market in Europe -- Prices: 5 Market Efficiency in a Changing Energy Environment -- 6 The Price Forming...

This book analyses the process of regionalisation and plots its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits attributed to it without looking into the...

Einführung -- Innovationsdynamik, Spezialisierung und Wirtschaftswachstum: Theoretische Erklärungsansätze -- Innovationsdynamik in der EU: Konvergenz oder Divergenz? -- Die Entwicklung der technologischen und wirtschaftlichen Spezialisierungen der EU-Staaten -- Der Beitrag von Innovationen...

Studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. It also features numerical simulations of policy competition and numerical solutions to policy cooperation

The creation of a single monetary currency and a single monetary policy in the euro area has faced extraordinary challenges, among them the design of suitable monetary policy instruments. This book evaluates monetary policy instruments of the Eurosystem against a number of requirements. To do...

The EU and the U.S. confront distinct factor market dynamics and common policy challenges. Labor market developments and long-term changes in capital markets and capital flows represent key problems in aging societies. The analyses presented here compare the European and U.S. patterns in this...

The current, unprecedented loss of global biodiversity resulting from anthropogenic interference in the world's ecosystems is affecting human well-being across the globe with increasing severity. This book examines two issues that are at the center of the public discussion on biodiversity. It...

This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally. It provides a critical microstructure analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), and also examines the theoretical and related market design issues affecting emissions...