The renewed momentum in the German housing market has led to concerns that Germany is vulnerable to asset price shocks … speculative bubbles in Germany over the sample period 1987Q3 - 2012Q4. Overall, we find that actual house prices are not … Germany. …

West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income …, here West Germany, shows that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns. …

particular, we follow a distributional approach to convergence based on kernel density estimation and implement a number of tests …

identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate …

efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient … than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm …

annual tax base loss for Germany amounts to EUR 5.4 billion. Adding estimates of profit shifting by multinationals not … covered by the CbC data yields an overall estimate for profits shifted out of Germany to tax havens of EUR 19.1 billion per … year, corresponding to 4.3% of the profits reported by these firms in Germany. This implies a tax revenue loss due to …

Social assistance to the poor is increasingly subject to compulsory work requirements in Germany. Municipalities have …