In order to explain slow growth and high unemployment in the Euro area, in particular if compared to the USA, we follow a macroeconomic policy view focussing on the more restrictive stance of monetary, fiscal and wage policies in the Euro area. In the present paper we focus on the particular...

The paper fundamentally challenges the institutional sclerosis explanation of the present German economic stagnation. Instead we present a macroeconomic explanation focusing on the combined effects of too restrictive monetary policies, too restrictive and sometimes pro-cyclical fiscal policies...

Drei relevante Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatten für das Jahr 2010. Wie kann die Krise endgültig überwunden werden? Wann und wie soll der Expansionskurs der Fiskal- und Geldpolitik beendet werden? Wie bekommt man danach die hohe Staatsverschuldung in den Griff?...