Recent pre-crisis growth accounting exercises attribute strong productivity growth toincreased investments in information and communication technologies (ICT), especiallyduring the mid-1990s. EU-wide stylized facts about a growing US-EU productivity gapare confirmed for Germany, particularly...

The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses - heavyweights - as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...

The paper aims to account for the empirical stylised facts related to changes in sectoral structures that have led to the growth of services in most advanced countries over recent decades. A growth model with evolutionary micro-founded structural change is developed, which formalises the role of...

The paper develops a growth model with evolutionary microfounded structural change. The model endogenises both technical change and changes in final and intermediate demand as affecting macro-economic growth, through the structural change of the economy. The aim is to formally account for the...

In der im Sommer 2024 durchgeführten Befragung von 182 Betriebsrät:innen in der deutschen Automobilzulieferindustrie berichten 60% von Beschäftigungsabbau in den letzten fünf Jahren. Besorgnis erregend ist der genauso hohe Anteil von Betriebsrät:innen, die erwarten, dass der...

The paper develops a growth model with evolutionary microfounded structural change. The model endogenises both technical change and changes in final and intermediate demand as affecting macro-economic growth, through the structural change of the economy. The aim is to formally account for the...

Die Digitalisierung ist in aller Hände. Das Smartphone hat in den vergangenen neun Jahren die private Lebensführung gewaltig verändert. Jederzeit und überall sind wir vernetzt, wir haben in Echtzeit Entscheidungsoptionen und Steuerungsmöglichkeiten. Die dahinter stehenden Hersteller der...