This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system. Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included in the analysis and are shown to have a major role to play.

The aim of our contribution is to present an innovative instrument to teach macroeconomics at the undergraduate and master level. We develop a digital learning platform to present and explore some controversies at the very foundations of macroeconomic theory. For this purpose, we explicitly...

It is by now a widely shared insight that fiscal policy needs to be re-strengthened as a macroeconomic policy instrument within European macroeconomic policies: Recent experiences with austerity policies, new research regarding the size of the fiscal multiplier and the fact that monetary policy...

Kernelement der neuen Finanzwissenschaft ist die entscheidungstheoretische Fundierung von Verhaltensfunktionen. Gerade gegen diese Fundierung auf der Basis individueller Optimierungskalküle richtet sich allerdings schon immer der Vorwurf der Realitätsferne. Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob man die...