This thesis was written by Jakob Eberl while having been a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2016. The...

Das Buch verfolgt eine doppelte Stoßrichtung: Einerseits erklärt es die Unterschiede in der Höhe der Defizite der deutschen Bundesländer, andererseits werden auf Basis der empirisch festgestellten Kausalfaktoren Reformoptionen für eine effektivere Begrenzung der Defizite identifiziert....

The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...