Der Strukturwandel in der Weltwirtschaft schreitet im Kontext von technologischen Entwicklungen, demographischen Wandel und Globalisierung voran. Dabei haben aus ökonomischer Sicht sogenannte "Leitmärkte" eine wichtige Rolle. Der Leitmarkt-Ansatz ist von der EU-Kommission wie der...

There has been a long-standing debate over the development of savings rates in developed economies, and an emphasis has been placed on aging societies and a global savings glut. Meanwhile, with rising global temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events becoming an increasingly visible...

Recent (de-)globalization tendencies and rising protectionist measures has created new interest in studying the effects of unilateral and world-wide tariffs. This paper contributes to this issue by taking into account that international transactions in goods and services increasingly take the...

The merit-order approach in the electricity market, which is in widespread use across the EU27 and the UK, has proven to be somewhat economically problematic in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The massively increased gas prices since summer 2022—in the context of Russian supply cuts to...

Die Politik in Deutschland und vielen anderen EU-Ländern hat seit Spätsommer 2022 zunehmend die Option einer Gaspreisbremse und von Transferzahlungen an private Haushalte bei Gas-, Wärme- und Strombezug diskutiert. Wie eine Gaspreisbremse ausgestaltet sein soll - für jede Gaskundschaft im...

Der russisch-ukrainische Krieg hat eine lebhafte Debatte über die angemessenen sanktionspolitischen Möglichkeiten Deutschlands bzw. der Europäischen Union ausgelöst: Idealerweise sollten Sanktionen Russland erhebliche wirtschaftliche Kosten auferlegen und dazu beitragen, die Fähigkeit und...

The environmental concern of people in industrialized and developing countries is analyzed. Using the 2010–2014 wave of the World Value Survey (WVS), the main purpose of our analysis is to investigate the effect of different information sources on the affective, conative and behavioral...

Vaccinations, lockdowns and testing strategies are three potential elements of an effective anti-coronavirus, and in particular Covid-19, health policy. The following analysis considers - within a simple model - the potentially crucial role of a Corona testing approach in combination with a...

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)-related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although the EU and the US are...