We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis …

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

and Germany to condition the relationship between real wages and business fluctuations on the phase of the cycle, it is … general, the evidence for countercyclical wages is stronger in Germany than for the US, but taken together there is no clear …

Survey data from the United States, West Germany and East Germany are analyzed to compare individual attitudes towards … political redistribution in each country. In West Germany the homo oeconomicus effect , the social rivalry effect and the public … effect disappears. In East Germany both the second and the third effect disappear. …