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Wage trends and deflation risks in Germany and Europe

Truger, Achim; Schulten, Thorsten; Hein, Eckhard - 2004

Based on a post-Keynesian model of the relationship between wages, prices and employment, this paper begins by studying the extent to which unit labour cost trends have been responsible for disinflation and deflationary tendencies in Germany and Europe. Thereafter, the reasons for the...

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Squaring the circle in Euroland? Some remarks on the Stability and Convergence Programmes 2010-2013

van Treeck, Till; Tober, Silke; Truger, Achim; Brecht, … - 2010

It is generally held, from both a global and a European perspective, that the three most impor-tant objectives for the years to come are 1) the reduction of current account imbalances, 2) the reduction of public deficits, and 3) the reduction of unemployment. This paper argues that the Stability...

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Macroeconomic policies, wage developments, and Germany's stagnation : [Paper presented at the conference: Germany's Economic Performance: From Unification to Euroisation, Anglo-Ger...

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2005

Das Paper widerspricht der gängigen Erklärung der Stagnation in Deutschland als Folge institutioneller Verkrustungen … Deutschland seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre konzentriert. Diese Sichtweise deckt sich mit der modernen Makroökonomie und wird durch … empirische Daten gestützt. Die Autoren vertreten daher die Auffassung, dass Deutschland kurzfristig dringend eine expansivere …

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Fiscal policy in the macroeconomic policy mix : a critique of the new consensus model and a comparison of macroeconomic policies in France, Germany, the UK and Sweden from a post-K...

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - In: Credit, money and macroeconomic policy : a …, (pp. 235-267). 2011

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Squaring the circle in Euroland? : some remarks on the stability and convergence programmes 2010 - 2013

Brecht, Michael; Tober, Silke; Treeck, Till van; … - 2010

Analyse basiert im Wesentlichen auf einigen einfachen Identitätsgleichungen, und besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf Deutschland …

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Future fiscal and debt policies : Germany in the Context of the European Monetary Union

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2013

Currently fiscal policies in Germany seem to be in a very comfortable position and the German Debt Brake is regarded as an institutional precondition for this success and has been exported to the Euro area in the guise of the Fiscal Compact. In this paper we scrutinize German fiscal policies and...

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Austerity in the Euro area : the sad state of economic policy in Germany and the EU

Truger, Achim - 2013

The Euro area is currently going through its worst period of recession and economic stagnation since the Great Depression and World War II. The article tries to give an impression of the extraordinary degree of fiscal austerity and the devastating economic effects it has already had and must be...

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Austerity in the euro area : the sad state of economic policy in Germany and the EU

Truger, Achim - In: European journal of economics and economic policies : … 10 (2013) 2, pp. 158-174

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Fiscal policy and rebalancing in the Euro area : a critique of the German debt brake from a Post-Keynesian perspective

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - In: Panoeconomicus 61 (2014) 1, pp. 21-38

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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we...

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