We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....

A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...

In einer großangelegten Befragungsaktion hat das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln, ermittelt, welche Hochschulen besondere und beispielhafte Studiengänge in den Bereichen Wirtschaft, Technik und Naturwissenschaften anbieten. Ob integrierte Auslandssemester, verbindliches...