Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

Demographic change inevitably shifts the balance between contributors and recipients in the pension system. Moreover, in the German pension system benefit levels are closely linked to the current state of economic prosperity. Therefore, in the coming decades stabilisation of old-age security...

Die tiefe Rezession in der Finanzkrise, aber auch das mäßige Wachstum danach haben Forderungen laut werden lassen, die Konjunktur nicht nur durch eine expansive Geldpolitik, sondern auch durch aktive fiskalpolitische Maßnahmen anzuregen. Mitarbeiter und Vorsitzender des Sachverständigenrates...