The main focus of this paper is the relation between the cyclical components of total revenues and expenditures and the budget balance in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. We try to uncover past trends behind the development of public finances that contribute to explaining the current stance...

This paper assesses the contribution of the European Central Bank (ECB) to Germany's ongoing economic crisis, a vicious circle of decline in which the country has become stuck since the early 1990s. It is argued that the ECB continues the Bundesbank tradition of asymmetric policymaking: the bank...

The main focus of this paper is the relation between the cyclical components of total revenues and expenditures and the budget balance in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. We try to uncover past trends behind the development of public finances that contribute to explaining the current stance...

This paper assesses the contribution of the European Central Bank (ECB) to Germany's ongoing economic crisis, a vicious circle of decline in which the country has become stuck since the early 1990s. It is argued that the ECB continues the Bundesbank tradition of asymmetric policymaking: the bank...

The main focus of this paper is the relation between the cyclical components of total revenues and expenditures and the budget balance in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. We try to uncover past trends behind the development of public finances that contribute to explaining the current stance...

The main focus of this paper is the relation between the cyclical components of total revenues and expenditures and the budget balance in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. We try to uncover past trends behind the development of public finances that contribute to explaining the current stance...

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion - associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last - contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...

Angesichts der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ist die Unsicherheit über die zukünftige Entwicklung der deutschen Volkswirtschaft verglichen mit der Vergangenheit außerordentlich hoch. Langfristige Projektionen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung sind heute nur unter erheblichem Aufwand...

Im Sommer 2007 setzt sich das weltwirtschaftliche Wachstum mit nur wenig verlangsamtem Tempo fort. Zwar ist die Dynamik in den USA schwächer als in den Vorjahren, jedoch blieb die Konjunktur in allen anderen großen Wirtschaftsräumen kräftig, vor allem in den Entwicklungs- und...