East-West migration in Germany peaked at the beginning of the 90s although the average wage gap between Eastern and Western Germany continues to average about 25%. We analyze the propensity to migrate using microdata from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Fitting a parametric Generalized Linear...

In a world with imperfect competition, market externalities or asymmetric information, the impact of money and monetary policy on the real sector depends on the way money is created. Two conflicting views of money supply can be distinguished in the literature: the endogeneity view and the...

In this paper, the empirical relevance of the credit channel for the explanation of monetary policy transmission in Germany during the period of monetary targeting from 1975 to 1998 is analyzed. While existing studies of the credit channel rely mostly on the analysis of monetary policy effects...

This paper produces first econometric estimates for Germany of the contemporanous wage gap associated with Temporary Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition, we present evidence showing that average male real...

Die Weltproduktion hat im Sommer 2014 in mo-deratem Tempo und damit schneller als zu Jah-resanfang expandiert. Ausschlaggebend dafür war, dass die Produktion in den USA nach ei-nem witterungsbedingten Einbruch wieder recht kräftig zulegte. Im Euroraum ist aber die zag-hafte konjunkturelle...

In den ersten Monaten des Jahres 2014 deuten die Indikatoren auf eine recht kräftige Weltkonjunktur hin. Es sind die fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften, die schon im Lauf des vergangenen Jahres erheblich an Schwung gewonnen hatten und diesen im Winter annähernd gehalten haben dürften. Der...