US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …

in Germany after the Fukushima accident in 2011. We use hourly data on power plant operations and a novel machine …

insufficient claims on state owned enterprises. The centralized privatization of state owned enterprises, which bypasses the East … German population, is seen as a major obstacle to quick recovery, and an alternative privatization procedure is discussed …

and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …

preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …