[aus dem Vorwort:] Der stellvertretende SPD-Vorsitzernde Helmut Schmidt zieht mit dieser Schrift eine ZWISCHENBILANZ, in der Halbzeit der Legislaturperiode, nach den Ergebnissen der Landtagswahlen, eine Zwischenbilanz für Partei, Parlament und Regierung. Er faßt einen Teil der politischen...

This paper presents some empirical results on the dynamic relationship between fiscal policy and the real exchange rate in the G3 countries since advent of floating exchange rates. This subject is of some interest given the recent shift to fiscal surpluses in the US, the annual announcement of...

This paper implements a novel empirical approach for estimating the importance of structural factors in explaining the recent behavior of G3 current account positions. Following the contribution of Sims (1982), we employ a tractable econometric framework that can be used to answer the following...

This paper analyzes German monetary policy in the post-Bretton Woods era. Despite the public focus on monetary targeting, in practice, German monetary policy involves the management of short term interest rates, as it does in the United States. Except during the mid to late 1970s, the Bundesbank...