Hungary's democratic backsliding demonstrates that the Cold War era notion that more access to information will accelerate the spread of democracy is dying. For authoritarians, social media enabled disinformation is the weapon of choice because it challenges democratic institutional legitimacy....

External capital accounts suffered during the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, but perhaps surprisingly the impacts were less severe than in previous crises. Gross capital inflows offset the outflows of residents, in sharp contrast to the global financial crisis of 2008/09...

Die Weltwirtschaft hat im dritten Quartal einen erheblichen Teil der in der ersten Jahreshälfte aufgrund der Covid-19-Pandemie erlittenen Rückgänge im Produktionsniveau wieder aufgeholt. Derzeit wird die Erholung durch eine weitere Infektionswelle und Maßnahmen zu ihrer Eindämmung zwar...

In the third quarter of 2020, the global economy rebounded strongly from the steep fall in output suffered in the first half of the year amid the covid-19 pandemic. Currently, the recovery is being slowed down by another wave of infections and policy measures to contain it, but on aggregate...

The paper examines the question how the EU and other countries who are in a similar position of "being caught between the US and China", such as South Korea, will shape their relationship with China and how their strategies complement, or contradict, the policies pursued by the US under the...

Die Konjunktur in Deutschland nimmt wieder Fahrt auf. Nachdem das Wiederaufflammen der Corona-Pandemie die wirtschaftliche Erholung im Winterhalbjahr ins Stocken gebracht hatte, wird die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion im weiteren Verlauf des Jahres in hohem Tempo ausgeweitet werden und ihr...

The German economy is picking up speed again. After the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic had interrupted the economic recovery in the winter half-year, GDP will expand at a fast pace in the further course of the year and exceed its pre-crisis level again. With the removal of the...