Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen Loehnen und Beschaeftigung? Wie beeinflussen die Loehne die Einkommensverteilung und wie wirkt sich die Einkommensverteilung wiederum auf das Wirtschaftswachstum aus? Im heutigen Mainstream scheinen diese Fragen abschließend geklaert zu sein: Es herrscht...

This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system. Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included into the analysis and it is shown that they have a major role to play....

Die neunziger Jahre erlebten in Europa die wirtschaftspolitische Dominanz eines neu-monetaristischen oekonomischen Paradigmas, das auch die Architektur der Europaeischen Waehrungsunion wesentlich praegte: Unabhaengige Zentralbanken sind demnach einzig und allein auf das Ziel der...

Since the final stage of European monetary integration in the mid-1990s, the member countries of the Euro area have been suffering from slow growth and high unemployment. On average, the Euro area’s economic performance has been unsatisfactory, in particular since the growth slow down in 2001....

Die deutsche Finanzpolitik steckt seit Jahren in einer tiefen Krise. Trotz hartnaeckiger Sparpolitik wird Deutschland 2005 zum vierten Mal in Folge die Defizitobergrenze des europaeischen Stabilitaets- und Wachstumspaktes ueberschreiten. Der Versuch, in der Konjunkturkrise die Haushalte zu...

We analyse the long-run imbalances of finance-dominated capitalism underlying the present crisis - which began in 2007 - with a focus on developments in the US and Germany. We argue that beyond inefficient regulation of the financial sector, the severeness of the present crisis has been mainly...

Currently fiscal policies in Germany seem to be in a very comfortable position and the German Debt Brake is regarded as an institutional precondition for this success and has been exported to the Euro area in the guise of the Fiscal Compact. In this paper we scrutinize German fiscal policies and...

In order to explain slow growth and high unemployment in the Euro area, in particular if compared to the USA, we follow a macroeconomic policy view focussing on the more restrictive stance of monetary, fiscal and wage policies in the Euro area. In the present paper we focus on the particular...