the areas of Germany's traditional industrial strength. This is explained by the nature of high performance work systems …

This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a … new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period … origins in administrative borders within Germany, in a geographical barrier that divided Germany roughly along natural trade …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

Germany's Great Depression of the early 1930s started in 1929 with a sudden stop in the current account. It ended after … a foreign debt default that unfolded in several stages from 1931 to 1933. This chapter reviews Germany's macroeconomic …

The severity of the Great Depression in Germany has sometimes been blamed on reparations in simplistic fashion … domestic economy, such as excessive wage increases during the 1920s. This paper argues for a more subtle link between Germany …'s slump and these policies. I explain Germany's foreign borrowing rush before 1929 from transfer protection under the Dawes …

the law on information disclosure for joint consultation andcollective bargaining in three countries, Germany, France, and … argued that there is coherence between the law and institutions in Germany; in France,despite extensive legal support for …

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the …