Laut den Zahlen des Statistischen Bundesamtes oder des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft hat Deutschland unter den großen Industrieländern noch immer die höchsten Stundenlohnkosten für Industriearbeiter. Nur kleinere Länder wie Dänemark, Norwegen, Belgien oder Luxemburg sind ähnlich...

After the recent global financial crisis several countries on the eurozone's south-western periphery, in particular Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, have faced severe difficulties involving the risk of sovereign debt defaults and a new banking crisis. Other EU countries, above all France,...

This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...