The German government introduced compulsory accident insurance for industrial firms in 1884. This insurance scheme was one of the main pillars of Bismarck's famous social insurance system. The accident-insurance system achieved only one of its intended goals: it successfully compensated workers...

This Forum aims to systematically describe and analyse the evolution of national financial systems within the EU over the past three decades. It analyses the processes of financialisation that have dominated this period as well as the causes and consequences of the financial crisis from the...

The 1953 London Debt Agreement settled Germany's debts from the period between the two world wars, and allowed the country to re-establish its role in international capital markets. The Agreement wrote-down the overall debt by about 50 percent and gave the debtors a much longer period to repay....

Japans und Koreas wirtschaftliche Entwicklung nach 1945 ist stark durch den Einsatz industriepolitischer Maßnahmen geprägt worden. Dabei ist Korea dem japanischen Vorbild mit einer Verzögerung von 10 bis 15 Jahren gefolgt. In beiden Ländern hat sich die Industriepolitik immer stärker zu...