the GDR and the current tax structure of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Arguments for an adequate short-term tax …

-looking monetary policy decisions. The bias is higher for countries whose monetary policy was more independent of Germany …

Germany. Germany's focus on actual, rather than cyclically adjusted, fiscal goals and outcomes carries the risk of rendering …

economic environment and policies. Declining labor shares, wage moderation, and employment performance in Germany and the …

recovery are balanced but the range of forecasts for 2007 is unusually wide. The priority for Germany is to transmit its …

For more than a decade, growth in Germany has been subdued and uneven. This paper introduces the stylized facts …

for Germany. It projects that Germany’s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining … labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term fiscal scenario for Germany based on current policies. The paper also attempts … to construct a preliminary public sector balance sheet for Germany, and analyzes the performance of its nonfinancial …

The staff report for the 2004 Article IV Consultation on Germany highlights economic developments and policies …. Profitability in nonfinancial firms has picked up, and corporate balance sheets are being repaired. On the policy front, Germany has …