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Welcome to Spring 2017

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thank you for visiting Wirtschaftswetter. Wirtschaftswetter-International, our English-language section, offers you themes, information, tips and services. The next edition of Wirtschaftswetter goes online in July 2017. If there is anything you would especially like to see in the magazine or if you would like to leave us a message with your suggestions, interests, wishes or questions, we will be glad to receive your e-mail: international@wirtschaftswetter.de

External Link: The one and only - The New York Review of Books

Theme: Brexit - The Great Unknown - Many experts are working on analysing possible impacts of Brexit - Brexit - The End of the Beginning +++ . An opinon by Julie Smith, University of Cambridge on the Brexit. More: University of Cambridge: Opinion: The Road to Brexit, or the UK's Journey into the Unknown. More cam on Brexit. +++ CEPS on Brexit +++ . CEPS have assessed the economic impact of Brexit on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. The losses for the EU 27 were virtually insignificant, but in particular Irland and some other member states and sectors could be more pronounced. The losses for the UK could be highly significant, more: An Assessment of the Economic Impact of Brexit on the EU27. +++ Brexit Agenda +++ Another CEP-Paper by Michael Emerson take a look at the next steps UK government might do and some possible responses from the EU: After the UK's Brexit White Paper - What' the next move towards a CFTA?. +++

External Link - European Commission: Public Surveys

+++ News +++ Discussion Paper - Drawbacks in Knowledge Economy +++ IZA-Researcherss documented trends among Norwegian offspring, grown up in the post-war knowledge economy. Chidren, especially Sons born into lower decile of the parental earnings rank distribution have fallen behind along all quality-of-life outcomes dimensions such as earnings, employment, educational attainment, health, family formation and mortality. The study suggests more support, PDF: Egalitarianism under Pressure: Toward Lower Economic Mobility in the Knowledge Economy? +++ Fan Aggression +++ A Research of the German Sport University Cologne proves club officials wrong. Football rivalries promotes aggression while acknowledging conflicts reduces tension between rival fan, more: Fan Aggression: The Counterproductive Effects of Playing Down Rivalries +++

External Link - New York, New York

Quote: "For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and desposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado."
Mary McCarthy

External Links - Borowitzreport

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