Kiel Policy Brief No. 160: Against the backdrop of the economic theory of federalism, the author examines whether decentralized powers in infection control at the state level are less efficient than centralized powers at the federal level.

Britain has left the union and elsewhere anti-European forces gain influence. The differences between the EU member states in terms of economic strength and understanding of the role of the state, the European Central Bank and the Euro are...

The British economist Prof. Lord Nicholas Stern will receive this years Bernhard Harms Prize of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which is endowed with 10,000 euros. Lord Stern is Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 135: The economic standstill decreed by the Schleswig-Holstein state government in the course of the Corona crisis ("Corona Decree") affects almost exclusively the service sector in the areas of "trade" and "consumer-related...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 125: The authors sketch the economic costs for EU member countries in case of a reversal of the integration process by dissolving the EU Customs Union, the European Single Market, the European Currency Union, the Schengen...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 106: In his Kiel Policy Brief the Kiel economist Jürgen Stehn asks, in how far the White Paper on the Future of Europe of the European Commission sketches promising scenarios for a future European integration process.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 140: The authors show that in the German federal states tourism has a different weight and accordingly the economic impact of the travel restrictions under the Corona measures varies.