Volume 48
September/October 2013 · Number 5

Editorial

• Europe Under Merkel’s Third Term

  Jacques Pelkmans

Forum

• EU Data Protection Reform: Opportunities and Concerns

  Susan Ariel Aaronson, Laurits Christensen, Alexander Dix, Federico Etro, Rob Maxim, Gregor Thüsing, Johannes Traut

Articles

• Talking by Numbers – Communicated Uncertainty of the ECB

  Hans-Peter Burghof, Oliver Sauter, Sebastian Schroff, Ulli Spankowski

• Austerity in the Baltic States During the Global Financial Crisis

  Karsten Staehr

• The EU Own Resources System – Reform Needs and Options

  Margit Schratzenstaller

• The Optimum Currency Area Theory and the EMU

  Kurt A. Hafner, Jennifer Jager

Letter from America

• U.S. Youth: A Lost Generation in the Making?

  Sylvia A. Allegretto