Die ifo Investorenrechnung gibt einen Überblick über die sektorale Entwicklung der Investitionen in den neuen Bundesländern. Der Bericht umfaßt die Jahre 1991 bis 1994. Im Jahr 1993 wurde ein nach wie vor kräftiges Investitionswachstum erreicht, das sich 1994 allerdings verlangsamt, da...

Die Investitionen der öffentlichen Elektrizitätsversorgung in den bisherigen Bundesländern wurden 1989 um 21% auf 10.250 Mill. DM verringert. Diese Reduzierung gegenüber dem Vorjahr ist auf den kräftigen Rückgang der Ausgaben für Kraftwerke zurückzuführen; die Netzinvestitionen wurden...

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...

This paper addresses the relationship between the utilization of temporary agency workers by firms and their competitiveness measured by unit labor costs, using a rich, newly built, data set of German manufacturing enterprises. The analysis is conducted by applying different panel data models...

This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...

Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11 West German "Bundesländer" (Federal States) from 1970 to 1996, I examine the impact of public capital on private production. My econometric analysis explicitly takes into account four of the most frequent specification...