The Economic Consequences of the Peace was first published in 1919, and since then, changed the economic discourse surrounding reparations and Carthaginian peace. This paper specifies how three elements hinted at in the introduction of the Economic Consequences of the Peace - social classes,...

As we progress into the 21st century, the human race is driving planet Earth towards ecosystem collapse. Scientists fear that because humans are overheating the environment and over-consuming its material resources, we are generating a sixth extinction event that is extinguishing billions of...

This paper investigates the effect of uncertainty on the volatility of the Mexican peso U.S. dollar exchange rate for the period 1999 - 2018. The empirical analysis consists on estimating a model by OLS and System GMM that includes measures of economic, political, and financial uncertainty, both...

Reparations is a policy proposal aiming to address the wealth gap between Black and White households. We provide a first formal analysis of the economics of reparations using a long-run model of heterogeneous dynasties with an occupational choice and bequests. Our innovation is to introduce...

This essay calls for reframing the narrative surrounding the economic harm that serves as the basis of reparations models to extend beyond the failure of Blacks to theoretically attain wealth to include the fact that individual Blacks have actually been dispossessed and should be made whole. In...

Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...

Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...

Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...

Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...

Die Autorin wirft die Frage auf, welchen Stellenwert insbesondere die Schadenswiedergutmachung und der Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich im Bereich des Wirtschaftsstrafrechts einnehmen. Dabei umfasst das Werk die theoretischen Auseinandersetzungen über die Anwendbarkeit der Instrumente im...

Under international law, it is uncontested that the victims of gross and systematic human rights violations have the right to reparation. International tribunals have granted collective reparations as the most appropriate kind of reparation for these violations. This has been re-affirmed by the...

This paper investigates the extent of vengeful feelings and their determinants using data on more than 89,000 individuals from 53 countries. Country characteristics (such as per-capita income, average education of the country, presence of an armed conflict, the extent of the rule-of-law,...

Griechenland befindet sich am Rand einer humanitären Katastrophe. Der Zusammenbruch der Banken und ein Staatsbankrott sind nicht auszuschliessen, seitdem die von Deutschland dominierten Gläubiger der Ende Januar 2015 neu gewählten Linksregierung unter Alexis Tsipras (Syriza) den Geldhahn...

Die Krise in Griechenland ist viel mehr als eine blosse Finanzkrise. Die Autoren dieses Sammelbands widmen sich in 28 Beiträgen allen ihren wesentlichen Aspekten. Sie räumen mit auf die Antike fixierten Vorstellungen über das heutige Griechenland auf, gehen kritisch auf Mentalität und...

"This paper investigates the extent of vengeful feelings and their determinants using data on more than 89,000 individuals from 53 countries. Country characteristics (such as per-capita income, average education of the country, presence of an armed conflict, the extent of the rule-of-law,...

This paper investigates the extent of vengeful feelings and their determinants using data on more than 89,000 individuals from 53 countries. Country characteristics (such as per-capita income, average education of the country, presence of an armed conflict, the extent of the rule-of-law,...

This article examines how Peru's anti-terrorism legislation erected as part of its 20 year internal armed conflict against insurgent groups led to systematic violations of human rights. The defects of these laws, particularly those related to the lack of procedural due process rights, resulted...