The quarterly International Economic Trends is a compilation of data on the G-7 countries and the euro area, including output, inflation, labor markets, interest rates, government budgets, international trade, and more. A brief essay in each issue covers a topic relevant to international economics.

As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations...

This paper discusses various ways of measuring corporate internationalisation. The concepts considered here became of crucial importance in the recent debate on globalisation, since many scholars link globalisation to a quantitative increase in the international activities of firms.(...)

In the debate on globalization it is often argued that multinational corporations (MNCs) have gained increasing power due to their growth and due to new global or transnational structures and strategies.(...)

Die Finanzierung öffentlicher Haushalte erfolgt durch Steuereinnahmen, Zuwendungen und Kredite. Investitionen, insbesondere Bauinvestitionen, können und werden in der Regel kreditfinanziert.

The Japanese Fiscal Investment and Loan Progam (FILP) will be fundamentally changed in April 2001. We are comparing the pre- and post-reform Japanese system with the German system of policy-based finance and we have found that the German system is quite different. In the case of the...

Die klassische Kreditfinanzierung der kommunalen Haushalte hat sich zwar in der Vergangenheit bewährt, stößt aber in Zeiten kommunaler Geldnot zunehmend an ihre Grenzen. Die schwache Konjunktur und die Steuerreformen der letzten Jahre haben die Kommunen in massive finanzielle Bedrängnis...

Ab dem 7. Januar 2004 beteiligten sich Studenten der Universität Leipzig an den seiteinigen Monaten bundesweit währenden Protestaktionen mit einem „konstruktivenStreik“. Dabei sollten reguläre Lehrveranstaltungen ersetzt werden durch Aktionen,die durch Ort, Zeit und insbesondere Inhalt...

Our paper examines the impact of heterogeneous trading technologies for households onasset prices and the distribution of wealth. We distinguish between passive traders whohold fixed portfolios of stocks and bonds, and active traders who adjust their portfolios tochanges in the investment...

This paper provides a framework with which to model one of the key links between universities andindustry – the undertaking of applied research. We assume that the fundamental objective of universities isto undertake fundamental research and that they receive public funding to do so....