policies can protect the region better from world crises and shocks, and to which extent should it rely on a strategy of close … trade and financial integration into a world economy punctuated by shocks and crises? This paper addresses the latter …

Seit der Finanzkrise hat Kroatien negative Wachstumsraten. Der Brain Drain hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte nimmt …

The Europe's 2020 Strategy clearly outlines the ambition for EU member states to pursue a smart, sustainable and … Europe's green shift. To deliver the EU 2020 strategy a new definition of competitiveness needs to be considered. Aiginger et … should be defined by the achievement of ecological, social and economic goals. The new industrial policy for Europe will be …

This paper draws on the experience of emerging Europe and argues that foreign capital is an enviable development … led to a buildup of vulnerabilities and now exposes emerging Europe to prolonged uncertainty and financial deleveraging … emerging Europe pursue a policy of self-insurance. Instead, what we refer to as an acyclical fiscal policy stance could serve …

interests: ranging from academics and public intellectuals that have written extensively on post-Cold War Europe, to … Central and Eastern Europe; on the transition of former Communist states towards a market-based liberal democracy and the …