in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …