We provide an empirical assessment of the German interurban bus industry two years after its deregulation in January …

of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

The macroeconomic development in West Germany in the aftermath of unification was characterized by a boom period in … 1990/1991, a deep recession in 1992/1993 and a slow recovery since then. In East Germany, in contrast, unification induced … unification are reported. The estimates are based on a disequilibrium model formerly developed for West Germany and extended in …

Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …

adaptation in Germany by analyzing impacts and adaptation options for climate-sensitive fields such as agriculture, energy, water …

adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …