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Challenges ahead: Long-term perspectives of the German economy

Paqué, Karl-Heinz; Soltwedel, Rüdiger; Schmieding, Holger - 1993

Central and Eastern Europe's Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) 12 b. The Impact on Germany 14 c. Political Consequences 14 2 … Environmental Policy in the EC and in Germany 55 b. The Eastern German Energy Market and Environmental Targets 57 2. Transport 57 a …

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Wohneigentumsförderung unter neuen Vorzeichen: Skizze einer zukunftsorientierten Reform

Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Schoder, Jörg - 2004

Im Folgenden wird zunächst die doppelte Funktion des Wohneigentums als Alters- und Generationenvorsorge analysiert, um die Potentiale des Wohneigentums im Hinblick auf einen Beitrag zur Lösung des "demographischen Problems" aufzuzeigen. Anschließend erfolgt die Vorstellung der Freiburger...

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Earlier or Later: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Bringing Forward an Already Announced Tax Reform

Honerkamp, Josef; Moog, Stefan; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2004

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

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Grundsicherung der Zukunft: "Die Freiburger Blaupause II"

Krimmer, Pascal; Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Seiler, Stephan - 2005

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Social Health Insurance: the major driver of unsustainable fiscal policy?

Hagist, Christian; Klusen, Norbert; Plate, Andreas; … - 2005

framework how unsustainable the public finances of France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. are, given their demographic …

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How risky is the German pension system? The volatility of the internal rates of return

Heidler, Matthias; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2005

In this paper we analyze exemplarily the volatility of the internal rates of return of the German pension system over the life-cycle of an individual born in 1957. The outcome is compared to an alternative defined-contribution or defined-benefit policy. Based on the actual data, our resultsshow...

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Internal rates of return of the German statutory long-term care insurance

Häcker, Jasmin; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2005

Presuming an ageing population, every introduction of a pay-as-you-go scheme causes intergenerational redistribution in favor of the first generations and to the burden of young and future generations. Using the concept of internal rates of return we want to examine the extent to which the first...

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Heterogenous life expectancy, adverse selection, and retirement behaviour

Heidler, Matthias; Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Leifels, Arne - 2006

This article surveys the literature on selection effects in retirement behavior. More specifically, we consider early retirement schemes with actuarially fair adjustments based on average life expectancy. To this end, we recapitulate the theoretical literature on selection effects and resulting...

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How Germany shouldered the fiscal burden of the unification

Boss, Alfred - 1998

In the process of the German unification and especially after the formal unification in October 1990, Eastern Germany … was supported by West Germany by a lot of measures. The main purposes were to improve the infrastructure, to stimulate … from the period of reconstruction in West Germany after World War II) was available. The methods of financing are described …

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En route to sustainability: History, status quo and future reforms of the German public pension scheme

Ehrentraut, Oliver; Heidler, Matthias; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - In: Intereconomics 40 (2005) 5, pp. 254-257

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