In Western Europe in the last two decades the unemployment rate has increased during cyclical downturns only to persist at or around the higher level in the following phase of economic recovery. One of the most notable exceptions to this pattern of unemployment persistence, often termed...

Im Verfassungsentwurf des Europäischen Konvents wird das Ziel der Preisstabilität und die Unabhängigkeit des Europäischen Systems der Zentralbanken (ESZB) schlechter abgesichert als im Maastrichter Vertrag und im geltenden EG Vertrag. Ansgar Belke, Frank Baumgärtner und Wim Kösters warnen...

Keynesianisch orientierte Wirtschaftswissenschaftler gehen davon aus, dass fiskalische Impulse das durch eine schwache Binnennachfrage bedingte niedrige Wirtschaftswachstum anregen können. Sind jedoch auch negative Einkommenseffekte möglich? Welche nicht-keynesianischen Effekte der...

The sharp widening of yield spreads among EMU sovereign bonds in the course of the economic crisis and concerns that some EMU member countries would encounter difficulties in rolling their existing debt and funding new budget deficits have revived proposals for a common bond issuance by EMU...

Eight months ago, as the risk of sovereign default in Greece first emerged, the Intereconomics Forum invited a number of contributors to examine the options available to EU policymakers. As the threats to European Monetary Union resurface now, six of the same authors return in this issue's Forum...

While past discussions on EMU tended to emphasise its role in limiting the impact of the global financial crisis on the euro area countries, the focus has now shifted to the destabilising effects threatening the entire euro zone as a consequence of the dire fiscal situation in some weaker member...