Reformstau in Deutschland. Was muss sich ändern? Und wie sollen wir es anpacken? Der renommierte Unternehmer und Berater Günter Rommel zeichnet ein plastisches Bild unserer Lebensbedingungen im Vergleich zu Japan und den USA. Er deckt die Ursachen von vielen Missständen auf und packt die...

Introduction : studying varieties of welfare capitalism / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow -- Business coordination, wage bargaining and the welfare state : Germany and Japan in comparative historical perspective / Philip Manow -- Strategic bargaining and social policy development :...

This paper develops a dynamic, life-cycle, general equilibrium model to study the interdependent demographic, fiscal, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period of rapid and significant aging requiring major fiscal...

China eventually becomes the world's saver and, thereby, the developed world's savoir with respect to its long-run supply of capital and long-run general equilibrium prospects. And, rather than seeing the real wage per unit of human capital fall, the West and Japan see it rise by one fifth by...