business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … incentives were granted for investments in Eastern Germany before 1999. Using business establishments in Western Germany as … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with …

The main objective of the present paper is to estimate the extent to which firm investment is substituted (crowded …-out) by investment support policies granted under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). In the empirical analyses we … studies suffer. Using panel data of 1,333 firms from the Schleswig-Holstein region in Germany, we find that the crowding …

west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …

west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …

As an incentive to increase high-impact investment and boost growth, the German Federal Government is planning to … end after two years, there is a risk that business investment could tail off at a crucial time, when post-COVID-19 …

west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est …