Das Schweizer Bankgeheimnis und die damit verbundenen Möglichkeiten zur Steuerhinterziehung haben in anderen Staaten zu erheblichen Verlusten bei den Haushaltseinnahmen und weitergehenden Wohlfahrtseinbußen geführt. Die Europäische Kommission ist bemüht, die Problematik nachhaltig zu...

An online survey among undergraduate macroeconomics instructors reveals that roughly half of them were scared when the crisis erupted and remain wary that more may be in the offing. As regards teaching, courses feature much the same lineups of models as they did before the crisis. A striking...

This paper asks whether rating agencies played a passive role or were an active driving force during Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We address this by estimating relationships between sovereign debt ratings and macroeconomic and structural variables. We then use these equ-ations to decompose...

This note demonstrates that when developing countries remove barriers to migration and integrate their labour markets, children may be driven out of schools and into informal or paid employment in the comparatively rich countries. In industrialized countries, the same mechanism might force...