Die Studie untersucht die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Finanzpolitik in den Mitgliedsländern der EU zur Erreichung gesamtwirtschaftlicher Ziele, insbesondere der Verbesserung der Wachstums- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen. Dabei wird auch auf das Zusammenwirken der Finanzpolitik mit den...

No one seems to be neutral about the effects of EMU on the German economy. Roughly speaking, there are two camps: those who see the euro as the advent of a newly open, large, and efficient regime which will lead to improvements in European and in particular in German competitiveness; those who...

We estimate a three-country model using 1995-2013 data for Germany, the Rest of the Euro Area (REA) and the Rest of the World (ROW) to analyze the determinants of Germany's current account surplus after the launch of the Euro. The most important factors driving the German surplus were positive...