... This paper suggests ways of making public passenger transport more attractive and usable. We want to reduce dependence on the car by achieving that objective and to extend the transport choices of those without access to cars ...

This paper reports work undertaken within research project TIPP (Transportation Institutions in the Policy Process) funded by the European Commission.

Aus der Einleitung: Die wissenschaftliche Analyse des wirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozesses in Berlin nach der Wiedervereinigung geht der Kardinalfrage nach, warum nach 1990 trotz eines raschen Wirtschaftsaufschwungs in den neuen Bundesländern die Erwartungen in Bezug auf die deutsche...

At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...

The macroeconomic development in West Germany in the aftermath of unification was characterized by a boom period in 1990/1991, a deep recession in 1992/1993 and a slow recovery since then. In East Germany, in contrast, unification induced a breakdown of production and employment followed by a...