Offshore wind technology has recently undergone rapid deployment in the UK. And yet, up until recently, the UK was considered a laggard in terms of deploying renewable energy. How can this burst of offshore activity be explained? An economic analysis would seek signs for newfound competitiveness...

This is the introductory chapter to the Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy. The Handbook is the first volume to analyse the International Political Economy, the who-gets-what-when-and-how, of global energy. Divided into five sections, it features 28 contributions...

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in policy mixes in innovation studies. While it has long been acknowledged that the stimulation of innovation and technological change involves different types of policy instruments, how such instruments form policy mixes has only recently become...

Offshore wind technology has recently undergone rapid deployment in the UK. And yet, up until recently, the UK was considered a laggard in terms of deploying renewable energy. How can this burst of offshore activity be explained? An economic analysis would seek signs for newfound competitiveness...

Central banks define a monetary policy strategy in which they set out the instruments they use to achieve their monetary policy objectives as well as the incoming data they take into account when using these instruments. Independent central banks in particular are expected to provide a detailed...

In diesem Papier zeigen wir, dass die Rechtsprechung über die Rechtmäßigkeit von Anleihekäufen durch die Zentralbanken des Eurosystems in Teilen auf der volkswirtschaftlichen Theorie des Monetarismus basiert und insbesondere auf einem Aufsatz von Thomas Sargent und Neil Wallace aus dem Jahr...

In this paper, we show that the case law on the legality of bond purchases by Eurosystem central banks is partly based on the economic theory of monetarism and, in particular, on a 1981 paper by Thomas Sargent and Neil Wallace ("Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic"). However, monetarism,...

Es ist Konsens, dass die europäischen Fiskalregeln einer Weiterentwicklung bedürfen. In diesem Papier formulieren wir Reformideen, die darauf abzielen, innerhalb des bestehenden primärrechtlichen Rahmens Schuldenstände zu senken, nachhaltiges Wachstum zu ermöglichen und die Souveränität...

Zentralbanken definieren eine geldpolitische Strategie, in der sie darlegen, welche Instrumente sie nutzen, um ihr geldpolitisches Ziel zu erreichen, und welche einkommenden Daten sie aus welchen Gründen bei der Nutzung der Instrumente berücksichtigen. Insbesondere von unabhängigen...