Andreas Steiner assesses the relationships between global imbalances, financial crises, and central bank policies, with a specific focus on their reserves. His combination of a strictly international perspective with an analysis based on empirical research enables him to develop an analytical...

This dissertation analyzes the role of money in three distinct environments based on two different modelling approaches. In two chapters, anonymous bilateral meetings create a need for a medium of payment that allows to keep track of consumption expenditures, and in one chapter, taxes must be...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development places equality and sustainability at the centre of policy agendas. Nowadays, socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic growth is a central priority of public policy for most governments worldwide. Based on the theoretical and...