In the present paper we question the mainstream diagnosis of Germany's post-2000 stagnation as well as the prescribed … remedies. We show that the "institutional sclerosis" view of Germany's stagnation is unfounded and that therefore the political …

US. A recent study by Hönigsberger (2008) for Germany basically concludes union members to overwhelmingly stick to their … contradicting empirical results, based on a newly constructed dataset for Germany. In a VAR analysis we find that the degree of … unionization of parliamentary members has a negative impact on economic growth and at the same time increases inflation while …