"As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens. Brigitte Granville views this malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the difficulties experienced by many advanced industrial democracies...

What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Brigitte Granville applies an economist's vision to the monetary and fiscal pathologies flowing from this ideologically motivated technocratic rule, reflected in Europe's flawed...

National accounts data are always revised. Not only recent data, but also figures dating many years back can be revised substantially. This means that there is a danger that an important part of the central bank's information set is flawed for a long period of time. In this paper we present a...

Wenngleich sich die Nebel etwas gelichtet haben, ist doch die Sicht auf die weitere wirtschaftliche Entwicklung alles andere als klar. So schlummern im Finanzsektor aufgrund fauler "Wert"papiere noch Risiken in unbekannter Höhe, die Dank staatlich zugelassener Bilanzkosmetik noch nicht die...