In the last decade economic policy in Germany was strongly focused on supply-side policies, and the demand side was … since the end of the 1990s. By comparing business cycles in Germany over time, comparing Germany's economic development to … led to a better and more evenly balanced economic performance, to more jobs and less inequality in Germany. …

Since unification, the debate about Germany's poor economic performance has focused on supply-side weaknesses, and the …

household spending. The resulting framework is well-suited for policy analysis through numerical exercises. We show that, first …