Bei realistischer Einschätzung der Wachstumsaussichten dürfte der jährliche Kapitalbedarf in Osteuropa zwischen 75 Mrd. und 98 Mrd. US-$ und in der Sowjetunion zwischen 184 Mrd. und 235 Mrd. US-$ betragen. Den überwiegenden Teil der Investitionsmittel werden diese Länder selbst aufbringen...

Für einzelne Länder ist es von Interesse zu erfahren, ob ihre institutionellen Regelungen Eigenschaften aufweisen, mit denen erfahrungsgemäß ein hohes Wachstum des Pro-Kopf-Einkommens erreicht werden kann. Eine solche Einschätzung kann mit dem Institutionenindex vorgenommen werden, der vom...

This study was prepared by Nina Czernich while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.It was completed in December 2010 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. The study addresses the question whether the emergence of...

"The strong external demand, combined with favourable supply conditions in Germany, has set in motion an economic recovery. There is reason to believe that the upswing will become stronger and more widespread in 1998. For this reason in the middle Variant II of the IAB alterna-tive calculations...

"The prospects for economic development in 1999 are not bad. There is, however, an unusually large degree of uncertainty concerning the future development of the economy and the labour market. In view of this we are basing our alternative projection on a broad range of variation in the...

"The Swiss labour market situation is characterised by certain specific findings: the highest employment rate of all OECD countries, the highest part-time rate (after the 'world-champion in part-time employment', the Netherlands), the largest proportions of foreigners (with the exception of...