Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...

The stubborn weakness of growth in the industrial countries since the mid-seventies is a manifestation of a serious crisis of stabilisation and adjustment whose roots go far beyond the oil price increases. Against this background there was a marked turn in the direction of economic policy as a...

Die Bundestagswahlen haben zu einem Regierungswechsel und damit zu einer Änderung des wirtschaftspolitischen Paradigmas geführt. Was erwarten Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer von der neuen Bundesregierung? Dr. Dieter Hundt von der Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände und Dieter...