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Austerity, Growth and Inflation - Remarks on the Eurozone's Unresolved Competitiveness Problem
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013
While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper compares price inflation before the crisis with the...
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136651
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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith - 2012
illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106535
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Target Balances and the German Financial Account in Light of the European Balance-of-Payments Crisis
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013
look at the components of this reversal of capital flows for the case of Germany. Its main finding is that most of the … Germany is small by comparison, with purchases of German government bonds increasing substantially, in particular by Spanish … and Irish investors. Some foreign capital even left Germany. In net terms, over the years 2008, 2009 and 2011 foreigners …
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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056834
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Buffering Volatility : A Study on the Limits of Germany's Energy Revolution
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2016
requires a storage capacity of over 6,000 pumped-storage plants, which is 183 times Germany's current capacity. Taking the … Europe. This will make it difficult for Germany to pursue its energy revolution towards green autarchy, as intended …
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Do Retirement Savings Increase in Response to Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?
Dolls, Mathias - 2018
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 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002-04), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925277
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2021
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identification. Using event study designs and differences-in-differences models, we find that workers bear about half of the total tax burden....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315773
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The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect - How to Solve the German Puzzle
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
Germany is the laggard of Europe, yet the country is world champion in merchandise exports. The paper tries to solve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317598
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Distributional Consequences of Labor-Demand Shocks : The 2008-09 Recession in Germany
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the distributional and fiscal implications of output changes in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127632