This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...

Ein zuträglicher institutioneller Rahmen und der Verzicht auf politische Eingriffe gelten vielfach als einzige Voraussetzung für marktwirtschaftliches Wachstum. Demgegenüber zeigen die Beiträge dieses Bandes, dass funktionierende Märkte nicht nur institutionell eingebettet sein müssen,...

In February 1998 a work was published in the series of discussion papers produced by the Bundesbank which was concemed with problems of measuring inflation in Gerrnany. This paper met with a lively response. The Research Group of the Bundesbank therefore staged a workshop on this subject at...