Central Bankers are currently facing big challenges in designing and implementing monetary policy, as well as with safeguarding financial stability, with the world economy still in the process of digesting the legacy of the crisis. The crisis has changed central banking in many ways: by shifting...

Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded...

Die friedliche Wiedervereinigung von Ost- und Westeuropa war einer der größten Glücksfälle der europäischen Geschichte. Aber mit der Osterweiterung ist die europäische Integration nicht vollendet. Die Gratwanderung zwischen Vertiefung und Erweiterung, zwischen wirtschaftlicher...