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...

This paper employs stochastic simulations of a small structural rational expectations model to investigate the consequences of the zero bound on nominal interest rates. We find that if the economy is subject to stochastic shocks similar in magnitude to those experienced in the U.S. over the...

Dieses im Rahmen des Programms „Voneinander Lernen“ veranstaltete Seminar fand am 13.-14.Juni in Stockholm statt und befasste sich mit den Auswirkungen von Steuersystemen auf die Gleichstellung von Frau und Mann. Im Mittelpunkt standen das in Schweden bereits 1971 eingeführte...