What are the macroeconomic effects of tax adjustments in response to large public debt shocks in highly integrated economies? The answer from standard closed-economy models is deceptive, because they underestimate the elasticity of capital tax revenues and ignore cross-country spillovers of tax...

Das Eurosystem hat bis Dezember 2018 im Rahmen des Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) Staatsanleihen für fast 2,2 Billionen Euro erworben, um (laut offizieller Begründung) die Inflationsrate auf den Zielwert von knapp 2 % zu bringen. Nicht wenige Ökonomen qualifizieren die Anleihekäufe...

This book proposes an innovative approach to European Integration by combining economics and political theory in its study of public goods. The contributors review such elements as a neo-medieval governance, the merits of a new European Republic, and, alongside Europe, include South East Asia in...