For most of its history, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has occupied a discreet but powerful position within the global financial architecture as the "central bank of central banks." In the twenty-first century, however, the BIS has quietly assumed a new and far more ambitious...

How would fundamental political change in Iran, leading to a democratic system with a free and rulesbased economic order, affect Germany and the EU economically? In the event of change, sanctions could be scaled back, allowing Iran to rejoin the global economy. This study quantifies the economic...