Chapter 1. introduction -- Chapter 2. The German Hyperinflation of 1923 -- Chapter 3. Macroeconomic Developments from the End of theof the 1960s to the early 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Inflation Wave from the Late 1960s onward -- Chapter 5. Comparison of developments in the various countries --...

"When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...

In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...

Die Einführung des Euro als einer gemeinsamen europäischen Währung war umstritten. Vielfach wurden erhebliche Wachstumsverluste und Verwerfungen befürchtet. In dieser Arbeit wird aufgezeigt, daß sich für Deutschland aus der Europäischen Währungsunion (EWU) eine Reihe von Vorteilen...