The growing demand for city tourism and tourism-extensive rural regions clearly demonstrates that leisure markets are rearranging their priorities towards better quality and more individualised travel experience or – more generally – towards "postmodern" consumption and production...

The economic performance of the CEECs in 2003 was dominated by a clear convergence pattern: On the one hand, growth in the "new" EU countries of Central and Eastern Europe has accelerated, which greatly helped converge their per capita incomes towards those of the EU 15. In all these countries,...

The Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) were able to maintain in 2001 and 2002 a growth rate significantly above that of the EU 15. The more developed group of CEECs went more in parallel with the EU 15, which means that their average growth rate fell considerably. The other group of...

Following the upward trend registered by the construction industry in Europe in the late 1990s (+3.5 percent in 1999, +2.5 percent in 2000), growth came to an abrupt stop in 2001, against the background of an overall economic downturn. Building production stagnated and is expected to grow at a...

Nicht nur die Bundesregierung, auch die Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute und der Sachverständigenrat haben ihre Wachstumsprognosen für das Jahr 2015 gesenkt. Kann angesichts des schwieriger gewordenen wirtschaftlichen Umfelds ein ausgeglichener Bundeshaushalt erreicht werden? Ludger Schuknecht...

The dynamic method of forecasting of the economy development is substantiated and the characteristics of its state are appointed. Presented are variants of the prognoses of changing the state of the economy, which were obtained by the method of dynamic modeling.

After the double-dip recession starting in 2008, the European construction sector returned to growth in 2014. With an average rate of +1.0 percent across all 19 Euroconstruct member countries, the recovery is not very strong but can be found in almost all countries. Despite the sluggish economic...

Vor der EU-Osterweiterung von 2004 gab es große Diskussionen um die Wanderungsströme aus den neuen Mitgliedsstaaten. Zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Studien prognostizierten ein Migrationspotenzial nach Deutschland in der Größenordnung von eins bis drei Millionen Personen. Vergleicht man diese...