effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … deregulation raises above the level present in more competitive markets, suggesting that the pre-existing conditions severely …

Product and labor market deregulation are fundamentally about reducing and redistributing rents, leading economic … players to adjust in turn to this new distribution. Thus, even if deregulation eventually proves beneficial, it comes with … market deregulation, we then use our results to study two specific issues. First, to shed light on macroeconomic evolutions …

's regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing a greater share of firms to publicly disclose their …

readability of privacy policies for a large sample of German firms. Germany has a system of state-level data protection …

In 2015-2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic …

institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro … to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue, as long as Germany does not shirk its growing … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …