Deutschland wird von Teilen der Wissenschaft, der Politik und in der Öffentlichkeit Investitionsschwäche attestiert. Doch tatsächlich trifft dies nicht auf alle Bereiche der Investitionsentwicklung in Deutschland zu. Die Autoren arbeiten unterschiedliche Trends auf verschiedenen staatlichen...

Recently, the number of state interventions and of firm subsidies has largely increased. However, the possible outcome of such interventions is rather am-biguous. This paper investigates the impact of firm subsidies granted by Ger-man regional policy. The long experiences made with regional...

Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today's social issues. Yet they are also the global drivers of technological innovation and thus it is critical that we understand their vulnerabilities and what makes them resilient to different types of shocks. We take...

Since 2011, Germany has consistently been the country posting the largest current account surpluses in the world. In recent years, this has led to a number of calls from economists and policy-makers in and outside Germany, and from international institutions and organisations, asking the Federal...