The European Union is the world’s largest and deepest free trade zone. Amongst its members, it has abolished tariffs and lowered non-tariff barriers. This has led to trade creation within Europe and to trade diversion between EU countries and outsiders. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment...

Die Corona-Pandemie bewirkt einen globalen Interaktionsschock, der die Weltwirtschaft unter massiven Stress setzt. Stabilisierungspolitische Maßnahmen begründen sich unmittelbar aus den Folgen der Seuchenpolitik. Die Autoren betonen, dass es in Zeiten hoher Konjunkturunsicherheit in besonderem...

In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent papers seem to indicate that the Rose effect seems to be...