Diese Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über das ausserordentlich tiefe Wachstum der Schweiz in den 90er Jahren sowie über dessen mögliche Gründe. Auffällig ist dabei einerseits die lange Dauer der Rezession, andererseits aber auch der ihr folgende eher mässige Aufschwung. Grundsätzlich kann...

As the global Great Recession continues, policymakers, economists, and the public are turning to Japenses economic revitalization for answers. Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in Economics, once said that Japan was a "full-dress rehearsal for the current crisis." Japan has experienced and valiantly...

After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the postwar era, Japan plunged abruptly into recession in the early 1990s and since then has suffered a prolonged period of economic stagnation, from which it is only now emerging. Japan's malaise, marked by...

In this chapter, we review the monetary and fiscal history of Argentina for the period 1960–2017, a time during which then country suffered several balance of payments crises, three periods of hyperinflation, two defaults on government debt, and three banking crises. All told, between 1969 and...