The ECB has announced a 750-billion-euro purchase programme to fight the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But like all ECB Programmes in recent years, the new Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) will likely be...

One of the key issues in WTO reform is to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of the institution. As it is often hard to reach consensus among 164 member states, one way forward could be that a subset of members deepens...

Global economic trends over the last decades have steadily increased the links between Asia and Europe. For both regions, a growing economic interdependency represents an opportunity to build strong, fair and sustainable...

Geht es um Unternehmenskultur, ist es gängige Praxis, von DER Unternehmenskultur zu sprechen. Doch entspricht dies der Realität? Die vorliegende Publikation zeigt, dass es in Organisationen mit den vorhandenen Subkulturen Vielfalt...

Unser Stifter Reinhard Mohn, dessen Todestag sich im Oktober 2019 zum zehnten Mal jährte, betonte zum Jahrtausendwechsel: „Internationale Kooperation und Friedenssicherung heißt das politische Gebot der Stunde.“ Bis heute hat...

WTO committees hold so-called „thematic sessions“. These informal meetings help to adopt a more forward looking agenda than the usual committee routine does. They also provide an opportunity to bring in outside stakeholders and...

Negative international spillovers created by nontariff policies are a rising source of trade tensions and conflicts. The WTO does not include rules for subsidies for services industries, state-owned enterprises or investment...

Geo-economic tensions and global collective action problems call for international cooperation to revise and develop rules to guide both the use of domestic subsidies and responses by governments to cross-border competition...

Currently, industrial policy is experiencing a renaissance in many countries. In Germany and the EU, a debate about costs and benefits of a strategic industrial policy as a response to sustainable innovation and competitiveness is...

Seit dem Jahr 2013 liefert die Studie "D21-Digital-Index" ein umfassendes jährliches Lagebild zur Digitalen Gesellschaft in Deutschland. Sie zeigt auf empirischer Grundlage auf, wie die Gesellschaft die Veränderungen durch die...