Contents: 1. The Public Rescue Credit 2. Did the Money Help? 3. Who Benefited from the Rescue Credit? 4. Interest Rebates 5. Risks of Creditor Countries 6. Loss of Competitiveness and Four Options for Greece 7. Advantages and Disadvantages of a Grexit 8. The Exit Procedure 9. Concluding Remarks

This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...

This EU supported Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) had been conducted by a European Consortium composed of eight research institutions. Ifo's part within this larger programme was (a) to analyse the fiscal effects of privatization and (b) to assess the valuation of privatization...

There is much debate on the impact of product and process standards on trade. The conceptual arguments are complex and empirical evidence is mixed. We analyze the impact of standards and tariffs on the dramatic rise and fall of the raisin trade between France and Greece in the course of 25 years...