What were the economic consequences of the 2007/08 oil price hike for Germany? In this paper we use a structural vector …

The IFO Business Climate is the most important indicator for the business cycle in Germany. In 1993 the connection …

use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

substantial reduction in the output cost of recessions and a more moderate reduction in the welfare cost of recessions in Germany …

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The …

for Germany preselected from a broader set using the Elastic Net soft-thresholding rule. The three states represent …

recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …

component appears to be completely ineffective. In a case study for Germany, we use the rich data available to combine micro …