Network dynamics, economic transformation, and policy design are closely related phenomena that influence the performance of economic systems in a variety of ways. In this introductory paper, we set the stage for a series of excellent contributions addressing some still largely unexplored...

Short term climate events such as the sea surface temperature anomaly known as El Niño are financial risk sources leading to incomplete markets. To make such risk tradable, we use a market model in which a climate index provides an extra investment option. Given one possible market price of...

Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise hat in den Jahren 2008 und 2009 die staatlichen Budgetdefizite in vielen Ländern Europas anschwellen lassen. Infolge der staatlichen Rettungsmaßnahmen im Bankensektor sind neben den automatischen Budgetwirkungen zudem weitere Belastungen auf viele Staaten...