Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas … concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … Germany. The challenge is to handle the structural break in the time series and the economic model by applying a SUR estimator …

centralized to a market economy and the estimation of plausible counterfactual income streams. Our central result is that 19 …

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 …

This paper studies whether the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy offers new perspectives for … Germany following German Unification. Using a unique large-scale German administrative data set, we measure individuals …

- rived from large linked administrative individual labour market data from Germany for a period of three decades. We obtain …

without government intervention there is unemployment in the economy. Then regional governments behave like middlemen in the …

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …