Form and success of international policy coordination regimes are fundamentally influenced by the distribution of power between the involved states. The present study aims at measuring whether the U.S. can still undertake the role of an $8Economie dominante and how the distribution of power...

Debt and currency crises are closely interlinked through the government's intertemporal budget constraint. The default tax and the inflation/devaluation tax can be considered as alternative means of financing. Our empirical analysis finds that high-debt countries choose default rather than...

Summary This paper develops a market-based procedure to significantly reduce the indebtedness of emerging markets by applying an asset-backed security approach to a pool of emerging market bonds. In an extensive simulation study based on historical data, the cumulated interest savings over a...

The European Council selects the EMU participants by a vote with a qualified majority. These voting requirements influence the benefit-cost-considerations of the EU states and may make it necessary to loosen the convergence criteria and/or to grant side payments, in order to achieve the...

Im folgenden soll die währungspolitischen Konsequenzen alternativer Wege zur EWU untersucht werden. Der Übergang vom EWS zur EWU wird modelliert als eine Abfolge von Wechselkursregimen, die sich in den Merkmalen Symmetrie, Flexibilität der Wechselkurse und Bindewirkung des Devisenkonstraints...