Realwirtschaftliche Anpassungszwänge der monetären Integration Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert die wichtigsten realwirtschaftlichen Effekte der deutsch-deutschen monetären Integration für die DDR-Wirtschaft. Es werden sowohl nachfrage- wie auch angebotsseitige Probleme aufgezeigt, die...

Am 23. Juni stimmen die Briten darüber ab, ob ihr Land Mitglied der Europäischen Union bleiben soll oder nicht. Michael Wohlgemuth, Open Europe Berlin, befürchtet, dass ein Brexit gerade für deutsche Vertreter einer ordnungspolitischen Wirtschaftsverfassung statt einer interventionistischen...

The world economy is threatening to find itself in a vicious circle of escalating protectionism. Franz Peter Lang explains the dangers and consequences of this. Gary Banks argues that the “new protectionism” is not so much a temporary by-product of the recession as the external manifestation...

Criticism within the Catholic churches of Latin America of the IMF and its approach to the development problems of the sub-continent has been persistently increasing in recent years. The measures imposed by the IMF, especially those following the payments crisis of 1982 have met with growing...

Voluntary export restraints play a substantial part in international trade today. This article compares the effects such restraints have upon certain exporting countries with the effect of sanctions applied under Article XIX of the GATT. It is shown that the microeconomic protectionism analysis...

The following article considers the effects triggered by exporting countries' reactions to the new protectionism. It demonstrates that if the analysis is broadened to take account of macro-economic interdependence the assessment of the trade interests, for instance, of “new” exporting...

Regulation can have counter-effects that work against the interests of those who advocate it, in both centrally-planned and market economies. Little research on these effects has been carried out so far, with the result that they have been ignored by policymakers.