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Prüfstand ihrer internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Das nennen wir Systemwettbewerb. Nationale Wirtschaftspolitik muß sich … zwingen. -- Wirtschaftspolitik unterliegt im Systemwettbewerb folglich schärferen externen Restriktionen und entmachtet die … diesem Band publiziert werden. Es liegt in der Natur der Sache, daß unter der Generalüberschrift 'Wirtschaftspolitik im …
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Haushalte sowie in der Frage nach Exit-Strategien aus einer Wirtschaftspolitik, die an der Krise ansetzt. Dazu kommt, neben …
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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
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Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...
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This paper provides a model of social hysteresis whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances fall....
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Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
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Is the Chinese growth miracle - a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over two decades - likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policies that have boosted growth? For all its presumed flaws, the particular approach to macroeconomic and structural...
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