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The German Productivity Paradox - Facts and Explanations

Elstner, Steffen - 2018

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...

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Do Party Ties Increase Transfer Receipts in Cooperative Federalism? - Evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Koehler, Ekkehard A. - 2021

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. We study how parliamentary representation of municipalities on the federal level influences the allocation of federal transfers to municipal governments under this type of...

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Tax Morale After the Reunification of Germany : Results from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - 2021

This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and West Germany in its post … compared to cross-country studies. Our findings show higher tax morale in East than in West Germany. However, in only 9 years … the East. We suggest that this convergence in tax morale between East and West Germany, despite efforts of the federal …

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Tax morale after the reunification of Germany: results from a quasi-natural experiment

Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and West Germany in its post … compared to crosscountry studies. Our findings show higher tax morale in East than in West Germany. However, in only 9 years … the East. We suggest that this convergence in tax morale between East and West Germany, despite efforts of the federal …

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