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order of Germany. It is argued that in post-war Europe the German social market economy as designed by Eucken (1952) and … Müller-Armack (1966) has been a core element of growth, welfare, social cohesion and political stability in Germany and …) growth and welfare in Germany and Europe. As the outcome is crumbling social cohesion and growing political instability, a …
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extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …
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integration process. We argue that the market orders shaped in postwar Germany and in Margret Thatcher's United Kingdom have long …
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In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or … thoughts on how a contemporary ordoliberalism can be constructively used to react to some of the challenges of the ongoing …
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Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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The economic tradition of ordoliberalism, understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School …, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories … consensus on the methodological question of whether ordoliberalism could be fully integrated into international research …
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The theory of optimal currency areas states that a currency union may succeed if the participating countries have complementary industry structures. If this is not the case a currency union does not, inevitably, have to fail because market forces will induce adjustments of the industry...
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, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
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To fight the spread of COVID-19, many countries implemented unprecedented social distancing policies. This is the first paper that uses an event-study approach to examine the effects of the German social distancing policies on (a) individual behavior and (b) the spread of the epidemic. Combining...
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Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive … 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections …
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