Asset Price Bubbles: Lessons From The Recent Financial Crisis
By Douglas Evanoff, George Kaufman & Anastasios G. Malliaris
The successful performance of the U.S. economy during the ‘Great Moderation’ period of 1984 to 2006...
Can We Afford to Live Longer in Better Health?
By Frank Pellikaan & Ed Westerhout
Rising longevity, low fertility and declining disability have serious implications for public finances. Although alternative assumptions on longevity and...
Sino-Russian relations: More rhetoric than substance?
By Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström
Despite some re-engagement between China and Russia since Putin’s initial embrace of the West, the positive rhetoric of today...
A Golden Opportunity?
By Andy Simpson
Since 2009, there has been a 192.6% increase in volumes of Single Malt Scotch Whisky (SMSW) sold at auction in the UK,...
Law and Religion in a Secular Europe
By Lorenzo Zucca
What place do law and religion occupy in European political societies? Do they overlap in such a way that conflict cannot be...
North Rhine-Westphalia: First choice for foreign investors in Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's economically strongest federal state, has proven to be a particularly attractive investment location for foreign companies in Germany and Europe for...
99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We...
By Chuck Collins
At the root of social movements around the world is the emergence, in the last three decades, of extreme inequalities of income,...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
Italy: A Consumer Story
By Emanuela Scarpellini
Can we go on consuming as we do today, perhaps even more so? Would it not be better to devise a consumer...
Russia from the Fur Trade to Carbon Aristocracy
By Alexander Etkind
Russia’s geographical space was largely shaped by the fur trade. Oil and gas have been found in those very spaces that the...




































































