This article privileges a financial sector explanation for the persistent German trade surpluses of the past 15 years. More specifically, it explains the disruptive consequences of a long-running stagnation in domestic investment in the face of rising German savings, particularly at corporate...

This paper addresses the debate on union strategies by analysing industrial relations change in three of Germany's most internationalized sectors: chemicals, metalworking and construction. It characterizes two logics of change in German industrial relations: a battlefield logic and an...