Andreas Steiner assesses the relationships between global imbalances, financial crises, and central bank policies, with a specific focus on their reserves. His combination of a strictly international perspective with an analysis based on empirical research enables him to develop an analytical...

This dissertation analyzes the role of money in three distinct environments based on two different modelling approaches. In two chapters, anonymous bilateral meetings create a need for a medium of payment that allows to keep track of consumption expenditures, and in one chapter, taxes must be...

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour...