Als Reaktion auf die Finanzkrise änderten viele Länder ihre Politik und die Regulierung ihres Finanzsektors. Um zu prüfen, ob diese Reformen zu einer höheren Widerstandsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft dieser Länder führten, wurden im Rahmen des World Economic Survey (WES) III/2018 die an der...

The paper discusses the question if the global economy already entered a phase of a global recession. This is based on the IMF definition that a global recession occurs if global real GDP growth falls below 3%. Taking actual GDP numbers for the Chinese economy published by the Conference Board...

This paper aims to shed light on why the downturn in global trade during the intensification of the financial crisis in 2008Q4-2009Q1 was so severe and synchronized across the world, and also examines the subsequent recovery in global trade during 2009Q2-2010Q1. The paper finds that a structural...

This paper aims to shed light on why the downturn in global trade during the intensification of the financial crisis in 2008Q4-2009Q1 was so severe and synchronized across the world, and also examines the subsequent recovery in global trade during 2009Q2-2010Q1. The paper finds that a structural...

This paper is an attempt to provide an ideological postulation of Adam Smith and Karl Marx on globalization. This paper gives a fair picture of the different dominant nations over a period of time from sixteen century till 2010. The industrialzation in Europe and later on in North America...

Nigeria has long been trying to learn how best to manage boom-bust cycles in global commodity prices, adopting an oil-price benchmark for annual budgets while saving revenues above the benchmark in an excess crude account in the half decade before the 2008/2009 global crisis. The crisis and its...

World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. There are both structural and cyclical reasons for the slowdown. A deceleration in the rate of trade liberalisation post 2000 was initially obscured by the ongoing expansion of...

The financial turmoil that hit Russia in August 1998 was extremely confusing to many foreign observers working in Russia. It was astonishing to see a country that seemed on its way to prosperity suddenly experiencing an economic meltdown. As part of my work, I was often asked to provide...

The key dynamics of the transatlantic banking crisis are analyzed - with emphasis on the fact that the banking disaster of 2007/08 was not really a surprise -, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU/OECD banking sector are highlighted. Most important,...