This research estimates the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1-2010:Q4 for the United States, European Union, and three other industrialized economies. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample provide evidence of three key relationships for...

This paper documents new results that the ability of structural breaks to explain away non-stationary long memory in the forward premium weakens considerably with higher-frequency data. For daily data, removing structural breaks does not make non-stationary long memory stationary, contrary to...

This research estimates the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1-2010:Q4 for the United States, European Union, and three other industrialized economies. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample provide evidence of three key relationships for...

Die Schuldenkrise in der EWU ist entstanden, weil sich die Staaten in „fremder Währung“ verschulden müssen. Diese Konstellation war als Ordnungsrahmen bei der Gründung der Währungsunion vorgesehen, führte aber dazu, dass sich die Staaten von den internationalen Finanzmärkten abhängig...