In dem Report werden die möglichen mittel- bis langfristigen Investitions- und Wachstumswirkungen der strukturellen Veränderungen des deutschen Finanzsystems, ausgehend von einer Reihe von Gesetzesreformen seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre, untersucht. Ein Vergleich mit den USA zeigt dabei, dass...

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...

The world economy is in crisis. Since the initial turbulences in the U.S. subprime mortgage market in the summer of 2007, we have experienced a global recession in 2008-9 and a wave of financial speculation threatening the existence of the European Monetary Union in 2009-10. At the same time,...

This paper presents an extensive, but non-formalized, critique ofthe concept of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment(NAIRU) and all similar concepts such as the steady-inflation rateof capacity utilization (SIRCU) which are used by mainstream economiststo argue that there is no...

We tackle the issue of the possible instability of the Kaleckian distribution and growth model. Distinguishing between Keynesian and Harrodian instability, we review various mechanisms that have been proposed by critics of the Kaleckian model to tame Harrodian instability while bringing back the...

We analyse the newly updated Stability Programmes of the Euro area governments by applying the simple accounting identity by which the financial balances of the government, the private sector and the foreign sector always sum to zero. While the focus of the old Stability and Growth Pact was...

Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat einen massiven Anstieg der staatlichen Verschuldung nach sich gezogen, ohne dass der europäische Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt dies hätte verhindern können. Es ist offenkundig geworden, dass die bestehenden institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen für die...