this connection. Over the past ten years, positive growth and employment trends have signifi cantly improved opportunities … efficient growth and redistributive policies in the future, it is essential for Germany to maintain sufficient incentives for …

I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the …

. We deepen the discussion on wealth inequality by evaluating the relative importance of savings, portfolio choice and … inheritances for the accumulation of wealth. To do so, we project active and passive savings based on the observed saving and …

only successful in promoting a new type of firm that otherwise might not exist, but in transforming the sources of growth …

only successful in promoting a new type of firm that otherwise might not exist, but in transforming the sources of growth …

We analyse the relationship between functional income distribution and economic growth in Austria, France, Germany, the … Netherlands, the UK and the USA from 1960 until 2005. The analysis is based on a demand-driven distribution and growth model for … Bhaduri/Marglin's (1990) theoretical conclusion that wage-led growth becomes less feasible when the effects of distribution on …

We analyse the relationship between functional income distribution and economic growth in France and Germany from 1960 … until 2005. The analysis is based on a demand-driven distribution and growth model for an open economy inspired by Bhaduri …/Marglin (1990), which allows for profit- or wage-led growth. First, we apply a single equation approach, estimating the effects of …

likely and/or more severe. While there is a growing macroeconomic literature on the growth-effects of natural disasters … especially long-run growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying behavioural responses to the … of directly affected and unaffected individuals. We find a significant decrease of individual savings and an increasing …