While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper compares price inflation before the crisis with the...

The paper argues that Lucas overestimates the Friedman-Bailey type of welfare cost of inflation and neglects other important welfare effects. With an alternative interpretation of the non-observability of low interest rates than the one Lucas gave and the introduction of taxes that reduce the...

Europa ist zum ?Kranken Mann? geworden. Schwere Krisen haben die Wirtschaft erschüttert. Die EZB versucht mithilfe der Druckerpresse den Patienten am Leben zu halten. Die Folgen: Nullzinsen, immense Staatsverschuldung und eine drohende Inflation. Ökonom Hans-Werner Sinn warnt in seinem neuen...