The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has been more and more substituted by majority voting in order to speed up decision-making processes in a Union of 27 heterogeneous member states. A third possibility is now offered by...

Das vorliegende Buch ist eine anspruchsvolle Sammlung von Beiträgen zum Thema "Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen", die sowohl in aktuelle Fragestellungen als auch in den State of the Art dieses Forschungsgebietes Einblicke gewährt. Die Autoren wollen mit diesem Werk dem Ökonomen Dieter...

Oil price increases and the persistent OPEC current account surpluses were considered the main problems of economic development in many industrial and developing countries long after the first oil crisis. Since 1983, however, the OPEC surpluses have been completely absorbed and the official base...