We are living in a far less globalizing economy today. Since at least the Great Financial Crisis the pace of globalization has slowed down significantly or even reversed in some areas. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to some extent to have inter ...

Rising public debt everywhere has raised the question of how to reduce debt again in the future. High public debt also seems to be an impediment for the exit of central banks from ultra-low interest rates and quantitative easing. Historical precedent ...

Since the 17th century, we have wanted to measure the future with the help of probability theory. To do this, mathematically incomprehensible uncertainty must be transformed into mathematically measurable risks. However, the measurement of the future ...

The European Union is more and more vulnerable to shocks, with the costs of keeping the union together increasingly burdensome for the taxpayers in the creditor countries. This casts doubts about the future of the block.   *In cooperation with ...