A central cause of the crisis, which the public debate has taken little notice of so far, is the rapid increase of income inequality in many industrialised countries, but also in some emerging economies. In the USA many private households have reacted to stagnating real incomes by increasingly...

Public debt has increased sharply during the financial and economic crisis. The European stability and growth pact could not have prevented this from happening. It follows that the institutional framework of the European Monetary Union is inadequate. Nonetheless, the current debate about...

Die globalen außenwirtschaftlichen Ungleichgewichte sind eine der entscheidenden Ursachen der gegenwärtigen Weltwirtschaftskrise. Der Report widmet sich neben dieser Analyse der Frage, wie sich die globalen Ungleichgewichte bisher auf den Krisenverlauf ausgewählter Länder ausgewirkt haben...

The financial and economic crisis in the Euro area has revealed a number of important flaws in the economic policy framework in Europe. On the one hand, the imbalances, which have dominated European development since the introduction of the euro, are not sustainable; and this is more serious in a...