Despite the current growth speed up and increasing employment within the EU, one can still say that European integration is in crisis: Economic performance of the EU and, in particular, the Euro area has been lagging behind the USA, not to mention other regions of the world. At the same time...

This paper first reviews different interpretations of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 (and its aftermath), focusing on the proximate causes in the financial sector of the United States. However, behind the immedi-ate causes lie ultimate causes without which the crisis cannot be properly...

Priewe rejects several propositions: The current account balance is not a sound indicator of the competitiveness of an economy, the direct use of gross capital inflows is not pre-determined by anyone other than foreign investors, capital flows do not determine the current account balance,...

Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy consists of original articles by leading Post Keynesians, Kaleckians and other heterodox economists from the developed and developing world. Post Keynesian literature has long been associated with the study of money, financial markets and...

Diese Studie untersucht die weltwirtschaftlichen Probleme, die durch große und anhaltende Überschüsse oder Defizite in den Leistungsbilanzen entstehen können, die im Zuge der Globalisierung von Handel und Finanzmärkten deutlich zugenommen haben. Dabei werden drei typische Gruppierungen von...

International trade has a significant impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global climate change. In this respect, trade between China and the European Union, as the world’s two biggest exporters, is critical to the global GHG emission reduction efforts. The EU-15 is committed to...