Economic globalization has intensified since the 1980s and created faster channels of international interdependence and an accelerating technology race. In this new asymmetric world economy the EU is facing a dynamic and flexible US system which takes advantage of the global quest for foreign...

Mit vielen Zahlen und Fakten verdeutlicht P. Welfens die globale Klimaschutzpolitik und kritisiert dabei, dass Politiker weltweit angesichts der wissenschaftlichen Belege für den Klimawandel nicht entschlossener handeln. (3) CO2-Steuer, CO2-Abgabe

Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital...