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The policy of artificial scarcity of currency
Herodotus tells us that it was Croesus, King of Lydia, the land from which, according to Livy, the Etruscans came, who invented the minting...
The Potential Role of Behavioural Economics for the 2017 German G-20 Presidency
The Federal Republic of Germany assumed last December the 2017 presidency of the G-20, after China held the 2016 presidency since December 2015. Proposed...
What to do about the Euro
A fter the North American subprime crisis, European countries suffered two simultaneous shocks: the customers of those "toxic" assets - mainly European assets...
The (irreversible) crisis of the European Union
According to a well-known Italian Research Centre, from 2003 to 2014 the European single currency cost an 11% GDP reduction throughout the Eurozone and...
EU Enlargement- Still hope for the Western Balkans?
The European integration of the Western Balkans seems to be stuck between declarative political promises and reality on the ground. There is general consensus,...
Thinking about Germany
What is Germany's current role within the EU and in the global economic system? Which game is it playing? These are questions which cannot...
Germany and Italy within the European Union
No one is really fine in the European gas chamber but - just to paraphrase Orwell - someone is finer than the others. It...
The Brexit issue
The issue of Brexit, namely Great Britain’s exit from the European Union, regards the age-old issue of what really drives the electorate: myths, real...
Federal Reserve’s Interest Rates Increase and Behaviour
Why U. S. Federal Reserve increase interest rates? How does the Fed efficiently use financial information? Which effect does it make in the City...
A Europe Created out of Necessity – Is Identity an Impossibility?
In principle identity can be established, reinforced, developed based on: force or grand political deeds like state building; common values, or shared history; tangible...