This doctoral thesis studies the spatial market efficiency of wheat markets in selected post-Soviet countries; particularly in Russia, the largest wheat exporting country in the world, and in the grain import-dependent countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Increased grain production...

In den vergangenen Jahren haben sich Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) weltweit zu einem beliebten Anlageinstrument auf dem Kapitalmarkt entwickelt.1 Das weltweit in ETFs gebundene Vermögen betrug Ende des Jahres 2016 ca. 3.150,0 Milliarden US-Dollar und verteilte sich auf ca. 4.200 Fonds. In Europa...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plans to introduce a single currency by 2010 in its six member states, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. This paper focuses on selected macroeconomic and institutional issues and key policy choices which are likely to arise during the...

This paper examines diverse aspects of the monetary integration of the ten new Member States (NMS) which joined the EU on 1 May 2004 into the euro area. Most NMS have undergone a rapid and deep transformation in all areas with considerable progress in their processes of reform and convergence,...

The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...

Global financial integration has been associated with divergent patterns of real convergence and the current account in emerging markets. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account...

Finland is characterized by a substantial heterogeneity across its regions. Key economic indicators, such as the GDP per capita and the unemployment rate, vary widely for different areas, with Uusimaa, the region where Helsinki is located, being significantly richer than regions such as Kainuu...

Die Europäische Union hat sich mit der Kohäsionspolitik zum Ziel gesetzt, die wirtschaftlichen Disparitäten zwischen den Ländern und Regionen in der Union zu verringern und den wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Zusammenhalt zu stärken. Die Wirksamkeit dieser Politik ist allerdings umstritten,...