In the current slowdown in Europe, the United States and Japan, policy makers are vexed by the question when a recovery will come. This is the wrong question. The issue should be how a higher growth path can be reached in the long run, i.e., how the potential growth rate of our economies can be...

The recovery in Euroland has started at the beginning of this year but it has remained rather moderate. Real GDP increased at an annual rate of less than 1½ percent during the first half of 2002. Capacity utilization has declined further and unemployment continued to go up. While exports have...

Am 4. und 5. Dezember 2003 veranstalteten das Hamburgische Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA) und der Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration gemeinsam in Hamburg eine interdisziplinäre Konferenz zur europäischen Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik. (Informationen aus dem Vorwort)

In the Kiel Discussion Paper 383, Horst Siebert puts up for discussion some considerations on how to reach a higher growth path in the European Union. The paper was prepared for the first meeting of the Group of Economic Analysis of the European Commission of which Horst Siebert is a member.¤...

The fate of British finance following the Brexit referendum revolves around the "resilience or relocation" debate: will the City of London continue to thrive as the world's leading financial centre or will the bulk of its activity move to rival hubs after departure from EU trading arrangements?...