Germany’s net exports and macroeconomic policy stance are controversial issues in current debates about the Eurozone debt crisis. This paper shows that both are characteristics of what has been described in a variety of political economy literatures as the German socio-economic model. We argue...

The globalization process stimulates more and more start-ups entering international markets at their earliest convenience. Supported by modern IT and logistics systems, this option is available for many ventures that become more and more independent from their country of origin. For...

Ein beträchtlicher Teil des von institutionellen Investoren (Pensionsfonds, Lebensversicherern u.a.) angelegten und an den internationalen Finanzmärkten bewegten Kapitals stammt aus Forderungen oder Besitz von Arbeitnehmern. Der vorliegende Beitrag erörtert die Frage, ob und inwieweit die...

Part I. Monetary Macroeconomics -- Chapter 1. Macro’s Missing Links. Exploring the Space between Monetarism and the Wicksell Connection (David Laidler) -- Chapter 2. The problems of inflation targeting originate in the monetary theory of Knut Wicksell (Lars Jonung) -- Chapter 3. Price...