Based on historical evidence and on verbally presented analyses scholars studying geopolitical relationships have proposed several hypotheses of general interest, namely: 1. Centrally located countries are at a disadvantage compared to those at the periphery. 2. Multipolar Systems of states are...

Government bankruptcies in the countries of the so-called periphery during the period of the gold standard were no rare events. They were also not limited to the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan countries. Prominent examples outside this region were Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Portugal.In this...

Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...

This book explores the characteristics of inflations, comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day. High and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of political systems and economic relationships – and the importance of different monetary regimes in containing...

Im September 2011 legte die Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) eine Kursuntergrenze des Euro gegenüber dem Franken von 1,20 fest. Dieser Mindestkurs wurde im Januar 2015 überraschend aufgehoben. Nach Ansicht von Peter Bernholz, Universität Basel, sind die Folgen der Freigabe zurzeit noch nicht...

Economics and historical analysis have much to learn from each other, a fact more and more neglected in research and theory building, and especially in university instruction in German-speaking countries. The lecture tries to illustrate this by demonstrating that certain economic relationships...