Volume 43
November/December 2008 · Number 6

Editorial

• The Obama Moment

  Eileen Appelbaum

Forum

• Does the EU Suffer from a Democratic Deficit?

  Amatai Etzioni, Christopher Lord, Andrew Moravcsik, Jacques Thomassen

Articles

• How Much Inevitable US-Euro Area Interdependence Is There in Monetary Policy?

  Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger

• The Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds on Global Financial Markets

  Roland Beck, Michael Fidora

• European Knowledge Societies (plural) – The Rise of New Knowledge Types and the Division of Labour in the EU

  Duco Bannink, Marcel Hoogenboom, Willem Trommel

• The Influence of Retirement Systems on the Free Movement of Persons in the European Union

  Anna Bluj

Economic Trends

• Policymakers and the R&D-Patent Relationship

  Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Gaétan de Rassenfosse

Index

• HWWI Index of World Market Prices of Commodities