Technological progress and knowledge-based innovations have more important role in economic growth and development than ever. This conjecture is often called the new economy, referring to economic growth that is strongly associated to the development of information and communication technology....

This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...

Die Aktienmärkte in Europa und vor allem in den USA melden seit Jahren Rekorde. Skeptiker befürchten jedoch, dass sich diese Hausse als spekulative Blase erweist. Wie ist die derzeitige Entwicklung im historischen Vergleich mit dem Crash von 1929 zu beurteilen? Sind die Kurssteigerungen durch...

This paper investigates the effects of the ongoing changes in industrial structures arising from technology evolution and financial liberalization on the correlations of international equity markets. Results point to the greater influence of industry structures on the international co-movements...

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...

From a macroeconomic perspective the term "new economy" describes a phenomenon of persistent strong and low-inflation growth due to the large diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT). This paper looks into Europe's position with respect to the new-economy phenomenon. Section...

In dem Heft werden drei Papiere vorgestellt, die im Oktober 2000 auf einem Workshop in Heidelberg vorgetragen wurden. Gefragt wird danach, inwieweit die sog. 'new economy' mit neuen Formen der Arbeitsorganisation verbunden ist. Ziel des Workshops war es, eine theoriegestützte komparative...

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...