On 11-12 May 2011, SUERF and the Belgian Financial Forum, in association with the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) organized the 29th SUERF Colloquium “New Paradigms in Money and Finance?” All the papers in the present SUERF Study are based on...

Die Weltwirtschaft ist recht dynamisch in das laufende Jahr gestartet. Im zweiten Quartal dürfte sich die globale Konjunktur aber abgeschwächt haben. Der vom ifo Institut erhobene Indikator für das Weltwirtschaftsklima ist zwar erneut gestiegen, aber nur noch leicht. Nach Ländern und...

Das ifo Institut hat bereits zu Beginn des europäischen Liberalisierungsprozesses die Organisation von Regulierungsbehörden untersucht. Der vorliegende Report knüpft mit einem internationalen Vergleich der Regulierungsinstitutionen an diese Arbeiten an. Am Beispiel der...

To impose antidumping duties consistently with the WTO, a national antidumping authority must show that the dumping has caused injury to the domestic industry producing a like product. Antidumping methodology splits this requirement into two component questions: a. does the local industry...

This report elucidates the risk channels for EU economies associated with international financial integration and provides an overview of the macroprudential policy options that are available to address these risks. It builds on the main insights from the rich academic literature developed...

In 2009, C.S. Gibson was suggesting that: "With this early coverage of intellectual property in BITs, it is perhaps surprising that there has yet to be a publicly reported decision concerning an IPR-centered investment dispute. Given the trajectory of the modern economy, however, in which...

In 2020, EU companies imported intermediate products worth 2.4 trillion euros, which made up more than half of total merchandise imports of the EU. Compared to the pre-crisis year 2019, imports of intermediates decreased by 13 percent, partly driven by the lower fuel prices. A detailed analysis...