This chapter provides a state of the art of the comparative capitalism literature by reviewing the discussion on the ‘varieties of capitalism’ both in the developed economies and outside of the traditional capitalist core. It introduces an approach to the capitalist variety in transition...

Zahlreiche Staaten haben am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts den Wechsel von Sozialismus und Zentralverwaltungswirtschaft zu Demokratie und Marktwirtschaften vollzogen. Das unterlegene Wirtschaftssystem wurde durch ein leistungsfähigeres ersetzt und damit die Grundlage für eine bessere...

The European Union (EU) and Germany were already being confronted with rapidly changing dynamics on the economic, ecological, and technological terrains prior to the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic however has fully exposed critical global value chain (GVC) dependencies, jeopardising European...

The goal of the paper is to decompose gross exports/imports to/from Germany for seven selected economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia for 2000 and 2014, to identify the role of German in absorbing, reflecting,...