the poor economic performance should let the east German laender out of Germany's rigid institutional framework. This …The current system set up to boost the economy in eastern Germany turns out to be expensive and little efficient: There … is hardly any convergence to perceive. Active labour market policy reveals poor effects, the same as the attempts to …

appropriation model, the estimated values for the long-run elasticities of substitution between capital and labor for Germany and … France are substantially greater than one. …