Washington Post, December 5, 2016, by Catherine Rampell. “Around the world, the populist, ethnonationalist far right is gaining vote share — in some cases (ahem) even winning elections. Also around the world, political observers are shocked — shocked! — that such anti-democratic impulses are gaining ground. But an important new...
Free Exchange, November 22, 2016, by R.A. “Institutions are organisations or patterns of behaviour built by societies to help solve social or economic problems which the law or private markets cannot fully address. Economists have not entirely ignored them. […] Yet for many of the most important questions within economics,...
The Macrohistory Lab at Bonn University is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (payscale E13 TV-L, 100%) in economic history, empirical macroeconomics and related fields. Salary is dependent on experience and is in the range of EUR 43,000 to EUR 52,000(gross)per annum according to dispositions for postdoctoral fellows. Additional funds...
BloombergView, November 21, 2016, by Mark Whitehouse. “Do we have the 2008 financial crisis to thank for Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president? More than a century of human experience suggests it’s a real possibility. Trump’s surprise victory has prompted a lot of worrying about the wave of antiestablishment — and...
Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 24, 2016, by Katharina Wetzel. “Vielleicht wusste es die schwäbische Hausfrau schon immer”, sagt Moritz Schularick, Ökonomieprofessor an der Universität Bonn, was ihn und seine Kollegen Òscar Jordà, Katharina Knoll und Alan M. Taylor nun so verblüfft: “Wohnimmobilien sind eine sehr lukrative Geldanlage und relativ sicher.” Die...
Fazit – Das Wirtschaftsblog, November 9, 2016 by Gerald Braunberger. Die Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten ist ein auffälliges Ereignis unserer Zeit wie die Zunahme des politischen Populismus in Europa. Für Kenner der Geschichte sollten diese Ereignisse weniger erstaunlich wirken: Die Erfahrung zeigt, dass gerade nach Finanzkrisen...
CNBC, November 23, 2016, by Alex Rosenberg. “A string of surprising political victories for those espousing right-wing policies may in part be understood as a reaction to the recent financial crisis, according to a set of German economists. “The data show us that this is the tendency — voters go...
