Financial booms and busts is a recurring theme in history, from the tulip mania in the 17th century to the dot-com rage and beyond. The financial crisis of…
2014: The euro crisis has been averted but problems still loom for the European Central Bank. Unemployment is record high and the economy has a long way to…
2017: Emmanuel Macron is elected president in France under waving EU flags. Soon after, Martin Schulz, former president of the European Parliament, takes the helm at the German…
The US trade deficit has been subject to much debate since the election of Donald Trump. In the previous mini-case, we saw that the deficit is big and…
The United States has a big trade deficit: the difference between imports and exports is a staggering 500 bn. dollars per year. That’s a big number. But is…
I am French, and the big event this week is the death of Johnny Hallyday, the “French Elvis”, who had been on stage since the 1960s. Four generations…
The Norwegian economy depends on the oil industry. In 2014, the oil price collapsed. How did it affect the country’s economy and what did the Central Bank do…
Your first guess: She is getting older and nostalgic about the time she was herself a student! You’re not completely wrong… Student-time was exciting, full of freedom and…
Waou! What a strange animal!… “ a non-digital website”. Isn’t a website expected to be digital? Macroscope started as an oxymoron. Indeed, after long talks with IT experts,…
Did you ever wonder how China grew to become the world’s largest economy? In this case study, we apply a technique called growth accounting to demonstrate the sources of…