New Paper: Trust and Control

New paper paper on the role of trust and social control in socioeconomic interactions In their paper Trust and Social Control: Sources of Cooperation, Performance, and Stability in Informal Value Transfer Systems, which has been published in the journal Computational Economics, Claudius Gräbner (together with Alex Lascaux and Wolfram Elsner) study the relevance of trust […]

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New Paper: Labour Market

New paper on labor market policies in Germany In a new paper published in Critical Discourse Studies Stephan Pühringer together with Markus Griesser apply critical discourse analysis to examine the transmission of economic ideas into labor market policies. More specifically the paper compares interconnections between dominant economic thought and processes of policy-making in the area […]

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New Paper: Macroeconomic Divergence

New paper on macroeconomic divergence in the Eurozone by Claudius Gräbner The paper Is the Eurozone disintegrating? Macroeconomic divergence, structural polarisation, trade and fragility has now been published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics. The paper analyses macroeconomic developments in the Eurozone since its inception in 1999 and documents a process of divergence and polarisation […]

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New Paper: Polarization in the EMU

New paper on polarization patterns in the EMU ( co-authored by Claudius Gräbner) The paper Structural change in times of increasing openness: assessing path dependency in European economic integration has recently been published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. The paper shows how the current institutional framework in the European Monetary Union and its focus […]

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