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Based on explicit present value calculations, the paper criticizes the view that the PAYGO system wastes economic resources. In present value terms, there is nothing to be gained from a transition to funded system even though the latter offers a permanently higher rate of return. The sum of the...
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A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
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The paper discusses the options for a reform of the German pension system using a model developed at CES for the German Council of economic advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Research. It is argued that the German pay-as-you-go-system is efficient in a present value sense but will...
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …
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The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamental reforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms … enforced. After 2023, Germany will be characterized by a gerontocratic system where the old decide over the young. Only the …
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endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions" of this member. In Germany, this is an amount of about DM 175 …
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This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a massive resource demand which parallels the US resource demand following Reagan's tax reforms in the eighties. The resource demand revised the German interest rates relative to...
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The paper comments on the economic effects of the German unification. Apart from discussing the unification in an international perspective, analyzing the distributional consequences, and pointing to structural adjustment problems, it emphasizes the distinction between the frequently cited money...
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How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...
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Squaring hourly demand and wind-solar production data for Germany and a number of neighbouring countries with the … results of the EU's ESTORAGE project, this paper studies the limits of Germany's energy revolution in view of the volatility …, Norwegian hydro-dam buffering and international diversification via grid expansion. If Germany operated in autarchy and tried to …
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