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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta (contributor); … - 2005

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...

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Induced civic pride and integration

Süßmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009

World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary … history to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We still …

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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy

Mergele, Lukas; Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz - 2020

-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated …

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(Since when) are East and West German business cycles synchronised?

Gießler, Stefan; Heinisch, Katja; Holtemöller, Oliver - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 241 (2021) 1, pp. 1-28

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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

in some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989 …

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Manipulating fiscal forecasts : evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Schinke, Christoph - 2017

We examine whether German state governments manipulated fiscal forecasts before elections. Our data set includes three fiscal measures over the period 1980-2014. The results do not show that electoral motives influenced fiscal forecasts in West German states. By contrast, East German state...

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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

process. Our main finding is that city growth in western Germany did not follow a random walk, while city growth in eastern … Germany did follow a random walk. Different post-war economic systems are most likely responsible for this outcome. …

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The Employment of Mothers – Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 232 (2012) 2, pp. 146-176

Summary We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives …

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