The analogy between the economic problems of the Mezzogiorno region and East Germany has been initially contested by …

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …

Germany is small by comparison, with purchases of German government bonds increasing substantially, in particular by Spanish … look at the components of this reversal of capital flows for the case of Germany. Its main finding is that most of the … and Irish investors. Some foreign capital even left Germany. In net terms, over the years 2008, 2009 and 2011 foreigners …

newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …

Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …

,000 pumped storage plants, which is 183 times Germany's current capacity, would nevertheless be huge. Taking the volatility of … difficult for Germany to pursue its energy revolution beyond merely replacing nuclear fuel towards a territory where it can also …

The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamentalreforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms …. After 2023, Germany will be characterizedby a gerontocratic system where the old decide over the young. Only the fearthat …

extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …