The harmonization of law has long been a topic of scholarly discourse in the sphere of legal and economic development. The interconnectedness of law and economic growth (or decline) is undeniable; however, the role that legal harmonization plays in that relationship is less clearly defined. This...

Auch 30 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung bleibt die Verwaltung und Privatisierung der ehemaligen DDR-Staatsunternehmen durch die Treuhandanstalt umstritten. Die dieser ZEW-Kurzexpertise zugrundeliegende Studie liefert eine ausführliche empirische Bestandsaufnahme des Privatisierungsprozesses...

The present study investigates the change of gender role attitudes in Germany between 1982 and 2016. Nine waves of the German General Social Survey are used (N = 26,389). In contrast to previous trend studies, which largely ignore age effects, a mechanism-based age-period-cohort model (...