Rating agencies are considered to be partially responsible for the financial crisis, as they awarded excessively positive ratings to highly speculative securities for too long. More…
It is much more popular to decry the sins of the embattled countries on the eurozone's periphery than to praise their efforts to return to the narrow path of fiscal virtue. Yet these…
Dr. Susanne Steffes received the Constantin-von-Dietze Award from the University of Freiburg for her doctoral thesis "Employment Dynamics and Heterogeneous Labor Markets: An Analysis…
In mid-November, 23 participants completed successfully the Qualification Programme "Strengthening Macroeconomic Policies" (MPS+) at ZEW in Mannheim. Commissioned by the Deutsche…
