The contribution will consist of two parts. The first part will demonstrate the contrast between the great and increasing importance of geographic factors for economic development and the small and decreasing attention mainstream economic theory paid to spatial aspects until recently. It thereby...

The savings measures of private households currently exceed the limited financing needs of companies around the world, and the difference is reflected in an increase in sovereign debt. In the EU, over the last two and a half decades non-financial corporations recorded funding surpluses in one...

The unusually rapid economic growth during the second quarter of the previous century led to a marked reduction of sustained exclusion and discrimination against groups of persons. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, growth rates in industrialised countries began to drop; the different types of...

European integration was and is a success programme. It was possible to successfully cope with the challenges of globalisation, to perform better than the United States in international competition, defending the European model of social security and inclusion while keeping pace in terms of per...

The Magic Polygon and the Trade-Off-Analysis For the economic policy of most countries, the magic polygon seems to be regarded as the desirable leitmotif. But do economic policy measures actually pursue such objectives, and what weight do they assign to them? Questions of this nature resulted in...

Bankengröße und Effizienz Die Diskussion um die Konzentration im europäischen Bankwesen wird weitgehend qualitativ ohne Bemühungen um empirische Tests geführt. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen über Größenvorteile (Economies of Scale), Verbundvorteile (Economies of Scope) oder auch bloß...