The present study looks at a range of questions related to the social and economic consequences of private equity/LBO activity raised by the European Parliament. Overall, we find private equity to be a well-functioning, established industry that fulfils a crucial role in our economy by providing...

After the switch to a floating exchange rate in 1973, the Swiss National Bank at first adopted annual monetary targets and in the 1990s shifted to a medium-term targeting strategy. In this paper I review the SNBu0092s internal policy analysis, an aspect of Swiss monetary targeting that has...

With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

Dies ist die Kurzfassung des Sechsten Berichts des Europäischen Beobachtungsnetzes für KMU. Das Projekt wurde 1992 von der Europäischen Kommission ins Leben gerufen. Ziel des Projekts ist es, einen unabhängigen Bericht zu erstellen, der einen strukturierten und aktuellen Überblick über die...