Frontiers in Economics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Monetary Theory, Monetary Policy, and Financial Markets

   • Jürgen von Hagen, Bernd Hayo, Ingo Fender

   Pages 1-36

3. Public Economics

   • Stefan Bach, Wolfgang Wiegard

   Pages 37-94

4. Labor Economics

   • Klaus F. Zimmermann, Gert G. Wagner

   Pages 95-126

5. Institutions and Transformation — Possible Policy Implications of the New Institutional Economics

   • Stefan Voigt, Hella Engerer

   Pages 127-184

6. Antitrust and Regulation — The View of New Institutional Economics

   • Frank Bickenbach, Lars Kumkar, Rüdiger Soltwedel

   Pages 185-234

7. Economics of Networks

   • Georg Erber, Harald Hagemann

   Pages 235-268

8. Growth, Structural Change, and Employment

   • Georg Erber, Harald Hagemann

   Pages 269-310

9. Economics of the Personal Distribution of Income

   • Richard Hauser, Gert G. Wagner

   Pages 311-370

10. Game Theory and Experimental Economics

    • Siegfried K. Berninghaus, Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Annette Kirstein, Stefan Seifert

    Pages 371-420

11. Summary and Recommendations

    • Siegfried Berninghaus, Harald Hagemann, Richard Hauser, Rüdiger Soltwedel, Stefan Voigt, Jürgen von Hagen et al.

    Pages 421-461

12. Back Matter

    Pages 463-477

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Economic Theory, academic policy analysis and public policy design are becoming more interdependent. Hence, the demands for close interactions between the policy community and the research community have been rising significantly. This book assesses how recent economic thinking has advanced under these influences. Furthermore, it evaluates the important contribution economics can add to the design and evaluation of public policy, now more than ever before. The study is of interest to policy makers, policy analysts, researchers and students of economics at all levels. The authors, which include many of Germany's most eminent economists, draw on their wide experience in research and consultancy to present a coherent view of where European economic theory stands today and how it can play a role in the management of the economy of the new millennium.

• Design of public policy
• Development of economic thinking
• Economic Theory
• Europe
• Germany
• game theory
• new institutional economics

From the reviews:

"Frontiers in Economics is organized around the practical value of the latest economic research. … It can be said immediately that the competence of the authors is beyond doubt. There are nine essays on a mixture of techniques and fields for economic policy. … All essays are contemporaneous and well researched, and they refer to well over a thousand bibliographic items … . Readers interested in the latest on those subjects will certainly find this book valuable … ." (Athol Fitzgibbons, Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 33 (2), September, 2003)

• Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Germany

  Klaus F. Zimmermann

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