We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are … revisited in this study: skilled-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product … markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU. While there is now a fairly broad consensus on the basic facts about the …

We present the estimated large-scale three-region DSGE model GEAR picturing Germany, the Euro Area and the Rest of the … present-value multipliers for distinct fiscal instruments, and to assess how discretionary fiscal policy in Germany and the …-on-quarter GDP growth substantially, both in Germany and in the rest of the Euro Area. The main drivers of GDP growth in Europe …

. Further simulations highlight the importance of increased savings preferences in Germany to explain the latter. …

We analyse tax revenue elasticities by applying dynamic models to a new disaggregated dataset for Germany, which is …

simulating legislative definitions of capital income prevailing in Germany between 2001 and 2010. For both simulation and the …