Die vorliegende Projektstudie ist in vier Hauptteile gegliedert, in denen jeweils spezifische Aspekte schwerpunktmäßig thematisiert werden. -- Hansjörg Klausinger sichtet klassische, keynesianische und monetaristische Erklärungen der "Großen Depression" und diskutiert vor diesem Hintergrund...

In the second part of the 80s, Japan was under political pressure to expand aggregate demand. It followed suit in increasing its money supply. This caused severe inflation and the financial bubble which collapsed in 1990 resulting in capital losses and in a sizable loss of GDP. This paper draws...

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Two politicoeconomic equilibria arise from our model, one with little protection of insiders on capital and labor markets, and another one with...

Globalization and unemployment are two phenomena which are amongst the most widely discussed subjects in the economic debate today. Often, globalization is regarded as being responsible for the increase in unemployment, particularly in unskilled labor. This book deals with the correlation...