balanced external accounts. As a result, governments in France and Germany began to adopt broadly identical policy strategies … crisis symptoms after the first oil shock were common to both countries: In France and West Germany formerly stable income …

very different consequences for export growth. There has been real depreciation in both Germany and France, but only … Germany’s exports have flourished. …

prerequisite for understanding the particular role of Germany within the bargaining process over the rules of European exchange … for balance of payments adjustments. I argue that Germany has so far been unwilling to compromise on the question of … consistency. Following the N-1 logic, Germany has served as the standard setting country for European monetary politics. On the …

trade unions) of Britain, France, and Germany have accepted an 'asymmetrical' Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) which …

of corporate diversification is not uniform across countries. The evidence shows that smaller countries like Germany …, though industrially diversified firms are valued at a discount in the US, they are valued at a premium in Germany and when …

strikingly similar way. To put it in simple words, there is no special gene that explains why Germany exports much more than …

between pecuniary and non-pecuniary job features in Germany, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) is used. The …

payments positions of the EU member countries. It emphasizes Germany's role as the primary strong currency country in the EU …