Welche Bedeutung hat eine Lockerung der Kontaktbeschränkungen für die Erholung der deutschen Wirtschaft, und welche Schlussfolgerungen für das angemessene Niveau der Kontaktbeschränkungen sind in den kommenden Monaten zu ziehen? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, wird abgeschätzt, welche...

In this contribution we link the recently re-discovered tendencies towards stagnation with the features of financialisation, which have started to dominate developed capitalist economies in the early 1980s. We review the main macroeconomic channels of transmission of financialisation-namely, the...

Christian Lindner, Bundesminister der Finanzen, stellt den Regierungsentwurf für denBundeshaushalt 2024 und den Finanzplan bis 2027 in den Kontext seiner finanzpolitischenStrategie und leitet den weiteren Handlungsbedarf ab. Um Prioritäten zur Stärkungvon Zukunftsausgaben setzen zu können,...

Knowing that the small and medium size enterprises should be protected so it can make the first steps to eliminate the effects of the crisis, the federal government has turned its attention to supporting SMEs. In this respect it has taken a series of measures to revitalize the role of SMEs, by...

This paper develops a novel procedure for proxying economic activity with day-time satellite imagery across time periods and spatial units, for which reliable data on economic activity are otherwise not available. In developing this unique proxy, we apply machine-learning techniques to a...

We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto...