This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, the authors characterize the response of output to fiscal consolidations and expansions in the small Euro-area open economies...

Some Basic Models -- Monetary Policy in Europe -- Fiscal Policy in Germany -- First the Central Bank Decides, then the Governments Decide -- First the Governments Decide, then the Central Bank Decides -- Central Bank and Governments Decide Simultaneously and Independently: Cold-Turkey Policies...

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

"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic change. Despite the implementation of Germany's first immigration act and several European...

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis. It identifies and explains Greece’s idiosyncratic weaknesses, and highlights the existing rigidities in the EU architecture that make the recovery prospects of the Greek economy challenging. Chapters from expert...

Max Otte vermittelt in diesem Buch wichtiges Grundwissen zum Wirtschaftssystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, zur Funktionsweise von Geld- und Kapitalmärkten und zur Wirtschaftsethik und macht fundierte Vorschläge für Reformen. Damit ist dieses Werk ein dringend notwendiges Korrektiv, denn...

Darstellung der Krisen -- Beschreibung der Unsicherheit -- Geldpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Wirkungen -- Fiskalpolitik -- Arbeitsmarktpolitik -- Ein abgestimmtes Konzept zur Krisenbekämpfung -- Folgen für die Wirtschaftspolitik.

Theorien und Determinanten der Dividendenpolitik -- Genossenschaftliche Prinzipien -- Member Value Theorie -- Aktuelle Herausforderungen für Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken -- Empirische Analyse der Einflussfaktoren.