While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper compares price inflation before the crisis with the...

In seinem Vortrag vor dem hessischen Unternehmertag analysierte Hans-Werner Sinn, Präsident des ifo Instituts, die gegenwärtige konjunkturelle Lage. Die Welt teile sich in zwei Gruppen von Ländern: einerseits die Schwellenländer, Deutschland, Schweden, die Schweiz und einige osteuropäische...

Despite its efforts and obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU has not succeeded in even making a dent in the rapidly rising trend of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions. If anything, the trend has accelerated in recent years. In his Thünen Lecture given to the German Economic Association...