Bei ihrer Gründung 1889 dominierte in der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung das Ziel, Armut bei Invalidität und im Alter zu lindern. Dies wurde erst 1957 mit der großen Rentenreform anders. Seitdem dienen Renten nicht mehr nur als Zuschuss zur Finanzierung des Lebensunterhalts, sondern als...

This Forum aims to systematically describe and analyse the evolution of national financial systems within the EU over the past three decades. It analyses the processes of financialisation that have dominated this period as well as the causes and consequences of the financial crisis from the...

The 1953 London Debt Agreement settled Germany's debts from the period between the two world wars, and allowed the country to re-establish its role in international capital markets. The Agreement wrote-down the overall debt by about 50 percent and gave the debtors a much longer period to repay....