This special issue focuses on the developments in ethical standards in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) including the former Soviet Union. Over thirty years have elapsed since the demise of the Soviet Bloc and, despite some common institutional features, the...

The housing wealth-to-income ratio has been increasing in most developed economies since the 1950s. We provide a novel theory to explain this long-term pattern. We show analytically that house prices grow in the steady state if i) the housing sector is more land-intensive than the non-housing...

Projektion für den Klimawandel zeigen, dass die durchschnittliche globale Temperatur weiter sehr wahrscheinlich zunehmen wird. Die politischen Entscheidungsträger müssen geeignete Maßnahmen umsetzen. Diese Arbeit verwendet dynamische allgemeine Gleichgewichtsmodelle (DGE), um die möglichen...