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 …

-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated … within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories …