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 recently, rating agencies…
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 efforts have been…
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 with Linked…
From December 7-9, 2011, Alicia Robb, PhD, is a visiting researcher in the ZEW Research Department "Industrial Economics and International Management". She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation…
