East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …

their jobs, had changed their occupations and industries, and had moved to West Germany. We partially close the gap in the … data by linking the "Integrated Employment Biographies" - that start in 1992 for East Germany - with the GDR's "Data Fund …

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

The macroeconomic development in West Germany in the aftermath of unification was characterized by a boom period in … 1990/1991, a deep recession in 1992/1993 and a slow recovery since then. In East Germany, in contrast, unification induced … unification are reported. The estimates are based on a disequilibrium model formerly developed for West Germany and extended in …

Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas … concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … Germany. The challenge is to handle the structural break in the time series and the economic model by applying a SUR estimator …

first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The …