High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

This chapter applies recent research on environmental enforcement to a potential U.S. program to control greenhouse gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon...

Hybrid governance structures between markets and hierarchies in many industries, e.g., in energy and telecommunications, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New Institutional Economics (NIE) for analyzing the...

Currently, the prospects for Turkey's EU membership do not look very bright. With key chapters for negotiation already suspended, the government is likely to resume a loose Europeanization agenda. The counterpart of this in the foreign-policy realm is an approach based on 'soft Euro-asianism'....

This collection of short essays proceeds from an international conference organized by DIIS on 9th November 2009, the day of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The volume centers on the political, social, and economic implications of the revolutions of 1989 on European...

Die internationale Finanzmarktkrise dauert nun schon fast ein Jahr und zieht immer weitere Kreise. Wie wurde die Krise verursacht? Welche realwirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen hat sie? Was unterscheidet die heutige Bankenkrise von der Weltwirtschaftskrise der dreißiger Jahre?

In Deutschland sind derzeit wieder so hohe Inflationsraten zu verzeichnen wie zuletzt im Wiedervereinigungsboom. Was sind die Ursachen dafür? Wie sind unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen davon betroffen? Wie sieht es in den anderen Ländern der Europäischen Währungsunion aus? Besteht die...